We found a match
Your institution may have rights to this item. Sign in to continue.
- Title
Formation of Supermassive Stars and the Direct Collapse to Black Holes.
- Authors
Regan, John A.
- Abstract
Supermassive stars represent a promising avenue for seeding the (super-)massive black holes observed in the centres of massive galaxies. In these proceedings I review the motivation on the need for supermassive stars as a progenitor pathway for seeding massive black holes. I discuss the currently understood limitations of seeds produced by less massive stars (i.e. remnants from the first generation of stars) and advocate that more massive stars - with masses up to M∗ ∼ 105Mȯ - formed under the conditions of hierarchical structure formation, in rare haloes, are the favoured pathway. Finally, I discuss some recent high resolution simulations demonstrating the formation of supermassive stars in early galaxies.
- Subjects
SUPERGIANT stars; BLACK holes; SUPERMASSIVE black holes; STARS; STAR formation
- Publication
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 2024, Vol 18, Issue S361, p539
- ISSN
1743-9213
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S1743921322002551