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astro-ph.SR2022★ 37 cited
Modeling Supermassive Primordial Stars with MESA
Nicholas P. Herrington, Daniel J. Whalen, Tyrone E. Woods
Supermassive stars forming at 15 - 20 are one of the leading contenders for the origin of the first quasars, over 200 of which have now been discovered at 6. These s…
astro-ph.GA2022★ 98 cited
Turbulent Cold Flows Gave Birth to the First Quasars
Muhammad A. Latif, Daniel J. Whalen, Sadegh Khochfar +2
How quasars powered by supermassive black holes (SMBHs) formed less than a billion years after the Big Bang is still one of the outstanding problems in astrophysics 20 years after…