The assembly of the first massive black holes

K Inayoshi, E Visbal, Z Haiman - Annual Review of Astronomy …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The existence of∼ 109M⊙ supermassive black holes (SMBHs) within the first billion years
of the Universe has stimulated numerous ideas for the prompt formation and rapid growth of …

Obscured active galactic nuclei

RC Hickox, DM Alexander - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are powered by the accretion of material onto a supermassive
black hole (SMBH) and are among the most luminous objects in the Universe. However, the …

Cosmic Reionization in the JWST Era: Back to AGNs?

P Madau, E Giallongo, A Grazian… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Deep surveys with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed an emergent
population of moderate-luminosity, broad-line active galactic nuclei (AGNs) at 4≲ z≲ 13 …

Supermassive black holes at high redshift are expected to be obscured by their massive host galaxies' interstellar medium

R Gilli, C Norman, F Calura, F Vito, R Decarli… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
We combine results from deep ALMA observations of massive (M*> 10 10 M⊙) galaxies at
different redshifts to show that the column density of their interstellar medium (ISM) rapidly …

The ASTRID simulation: the evolution of supermassive black holes

Y Ni, T Di Matteo, S Bird, R Croft, Y Feng… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We present the evolution of black holes (BHs) and their relationship with their host galaxies
in Astrid, a large-volume cosmological hydrodynamical simulation with box size 250 h …

COSMOS2020: The galaxy stellar mass function-The assembly and star formation cessation of galaxies at 0.2< z≤ 7.5

JR Weaver, I Davidzon, S Toft, O Ilbert… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. How galaxies form, assemble, and cease their star formation is a central question
within the modern landscape of galaxy evolution studies. These processes are indelibly …

CEERS Key Paper. VI. JWST/MIRI Uncovers a Large Population of Obscured AGN at High Redshifts

G Yang, KI Caputi, C Papovich, PA Haro… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Mid-infrared (mid-IR) observations are powerful in identifying heavily obscured
active galactic nuclei (AGN) that have weak emission in other wavelengths. Data from the …

The low-end of the black hole mass function at cosmic dawn

A Trinca, R Schneider, R Valiante… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Understanding the formation and growth of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at high
redshift represents a major challenge for theoretical models. In this work, we investigate the …

“Super-deblended” Dust Emission in Galaxies. II. Far-IR to (Sub) millimeter Photometry and High-redshift Galaxy Candidates in the Full COSMOS Field

S **, E Daddi, D Liu, V Smolčić… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a" super-deblended" far-infrared (FIR) to (sub) millimeter photometric catalog in
the Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS), prepared with the method recently developed by …

Seeking the growth of the first black hole seeds with JWST

A Trinca, R Schneider, R Maiolino… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
In this paper, we provide predictions for the black hole (BH) population that would be
observable with planned JWST surveys at 5≤ z≤ 15. We base our study on the recently …