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astro-ph.CO2012★ 3 cited
The Growth of the Stellar Seeds of Supermassive Black Holes
Jarrett L. Johnson, Bhaskar Agarwal, Daniel J. Whalen +5
One of the most promising explanations for the origin of the billion solar mass black holes (BHs) inferred to power quasars at redshifts z > 6 is that supermassive stars (SMSs) wit…
astro-ph.CO2012★ 246 cited
Ubiquitous seeding of supermassive black holes by direct collapse
Bhaskar Agarwal, Sadegh Khochfar, Jarrett L. Johnson +3
We study for the first time the environment of massive black hole (BH) seeds (~10^4-5 Msun) formed via the direct collapse of pristine gas clouds in massive haloes (>10^7 Msun) at…