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The Formation and Feeding of Massive Black Holes in the Early Universe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Wolfgang J. Duschl  and
Peter A. Strittmatter
Wolfgang J. Duschl
Affiliation:
Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Heidelberg, Germany; [email protected]
Peter A. Strittmatter
Affiliation:
Steward Observatory, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA; [email protected]

Abstract

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It is still an open question whether the super-massive black holes thought to be present in quasars are of primordial nature, or whether there is a viable way of forming them in the very short time scale (less than a billion years) permitted by the observational data. In this contribution, we present a way in which a galaxy-galaxy merger can provide not only the “fuel” for quasar activity, but can also build a super-massive black hole, i.e., “the engine”, in the first place.

Type
Part 5. AGN Phenomena
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 184: AGN Surveys , 2002 , pp. 343 - 349
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2002

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