From Dense Gas Clouds to Supermassive Black Hole Seeds: Hybrid Hydro/Direct $N$-body Simulations of Runaway Collision-driven Intermediate-mass Black Hole Formation

Eunwoo Chung, Yongseok Jo, Ji-hoon Kim +2

A population of dense stellar systems at high redshift has recently been uncovered by the JWST. To investigate the formation of supermassive black hole (SMBH) seeds in these dense…