Intermediate-mass black holes

JE Greene, J Strader, LC Ho - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
We describe ongoing searches for intermediate-mass black holes with M BH≈ 10–105 M⊙.
We review a range of search mechanisms, both dynamical and those that rely on accretion …

Formation of supermassive black holes

M Volonteri - The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, 2010 - Springer
Evidence shows that massive black holes reside in most local galaxies. Studies have also
established a number of relations between the MBH mass and properties of the host galaxy …

UNCOVER: The Growth of the First Massive Black Holes from JWST/NIRSpec—Spectroscopic Redshift Confirmation of an X-Ray Luminous AGN at z= 10.1

AD Goulding, JE Greene, DJ Setton… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The James Webb Space Telescope is now detecting early black holes (BHs) as
they transition from" seeds" to supermassive BHs. Recently, Bogdan et al. reported the …

Evidence for heavy-seed origin of early supermassive black holes from a z ≈ 10 X-ray quasar

Á Bogdán, AD Goulding, P Natarajan, OE Kovács… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Observations of quasars reveal that many supermassive black holes (BHs) were in place
less than 700 Myr after the Big Bang. However, the origin of the first BHs remains a mystery …

UNCOVER: A NIRSpec Identification of a Broad-line AGN at z= 8.50

V Kokorev, S Fujimoto, I Labbe… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Deep observations with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed an
emerging population of red pointlike sources that could provide a link between the …

UNCOVER Spectroscopy Confirms the Surprising Ubiquity of Active Galactic Nuclei in Red Sources at z> 5

JE Greene, I Labbe, AD Goulding… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The James Webb Space Telescope is revealing a new population of dust-reddened
broad-line active galactic nuclei (AGN) at redshifts z≳ 5. Here we present deep …

Cosmic microwave background bounds on primordial black holes including dark matter halo accretion

PD Serpico, V Poulin, D Inman, K Kohri - Physical Review Research, 2020 - APS
Even if massive (10 M⊙≲ M≲ 10 4 M⊙) primordial black holes (PBHs) can only account for
a small fraction of the dark matter (DM) in the universe, they may still be responsible for a …

Properties and Astrophysical Implications of the 150 M o˙ Binary Black Hole Merger GW190521

LIGO Scientific Collaboration… - Astrophysical …, 2020 - researchoutput.csu.edu.au
The gravitational-wave signal GW190521 is consistent with a binary black hole (BBH)
merger source at redshift 0.8 with unusually high component masses, 85-14+ 21 M o and 66 …

First Detection of an Overmassive Black Hole Galaxy UHZ1: Evidence for Heavy Black Hole Seed Formation from Direct Collapse

P Natarajan, F Pacucci, A Ricarte… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The recent Chandra-JWST discovery of a quasar in the z≈ 10.1 galaxy UHZ1 reveals that
accreting supermassive black holes were already in place 470 million years after the Big …