Titans of the early Universe: the Prato statement on the origin of the first supermassive black holes

Tyrone E. Woods; Bhaskar Agarwal; Volker Bromm; Adrian Bunker; Ke-Jung Chen; S. Chon; A. Ferrara; Simon C. O. Glover; Lionel Haemmerle; Z. Haiman; Tilman Hartwig; Alexander Heger; Shoji Hirano; T. Hosokawa; K.  Inayoshi,; Ralf S. Klessen; C. Kobayashi; F. Koliopanos; M. A.  Latif; Y. Li; Lucio Mayer; Mar Mezcua; P. Natarajan; Fabio Pacucci; M. J. Rees; J. A. Regan; Y. Sakurai; S. Salvadori; R. Schneider; Marco Surace; T. L. Tanaka; Daniel Whalen; N. Yoshida

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Titans of the early Universe: the Prato statement on the origin of the first supermassive black holes

Tyrone E. Woods, Bhaskar Agarwal, Volker Bromm, Adrian Bunker, Ke-Jung Chen, S. Chon, A. Ferrara, Simon C. O. Glover, Lionel Haemmerle, Z. Haiman, Tilman Hartwig, Alexander Heger, Shoji Hirano, T. Hosokawa, K. Inayoshi,, Ralf S. Klessen, C. Kobayashi, F. Koliopanos, M. A. Latif, Y. LiLucio Mayer, Mar Mezcua, P. Natarajan, Fabio Pacucci, M. J. Rees , J. A. Regan, Y. Sakurai, S. Salvadori, R. Schneider, Marco Surace, T. L. Tanaka, Daniel Whalen, N. Yoshida

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In recent years, the discovery of massive quasars at z ∼ 7 has provided a striking challenge to our understanding of the origin and growth of supermassive black holes in the early Universe. Mounting observational and theoretical evidence indicates the viability of massive seeds, formed by the collapse of supermassive stars, as a progenitor model for such early, massive accreting black holes. Although considerable progress has been made in our theoretical understanding, many questions remain regarding how (and how often) such objects may form, how they live and die, and how next generation observatories may yield new insight into the origin of these primordial titans. This review focusses on our present understanding of this remarkable formation scenario, based on the discussions held at the Monash Prato Centre from November 20 to 24, 2017, during the workshop ‘Titans of the Early Universe: The Origin of the First Supermassive Black Holes’.

Original language	English
Article number	e027
Number of pages	30
Journal	Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
Volume	36
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/pasa.2019.14
Publication status	Published - 6 Aug 2019

Keywords

RCUK
STFC
ST/P000509/1
ST/M000958/1
first stars
quasars: supermassive black holes, high-redshift
Population III, massive, binaries

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Woods, T. E., Agarwal, B., Bromm, V., Bunker, A., Chen, K.-J., Chon, S., Ferrara, A., Glover, S. C. O., Haemmerle, L., Haiman, Z., Hartwig, T., Heger, A., Hirano, S., Hosokawa, T., Inayoshi, K., Klessen, R. S., Kobayashi, C., Koliopanos, F., Latif, M. A., ... Yoshida, N. (2019). Titans of the early Universe: the Prato statement on the origin of the first supermassive black holes. Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 36, Article e027. https://doi.org/10.1017/pasa.2019.14

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