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most citedA Unified, Merger-Driven Model for the Origin of Starbursts, Quasars, the Cosmic X-Ray Background, Supermassive Black Holes and Galaxy Spheroids

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Formation of z ~ 6 quasars from hierarchical galaxy mergers

Yuexing Li, Lars Hernquist, Brant Robertson +8

The discovery of luminous quasars at redshift z ~ 6 indicates the presence of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) of mass ~10^9 Msun when the Universe was less than one billion years…