Toward Black Hole Stars: supermassive black hole growth in nuclear clusters via stellar-object and gas accretion

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Auteurs principaux: Kritos, Konstantinos, Silk, Joseph
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author Kritos, Konstantinos
Silk, Joseph
author_facet Kritos, Konstantinos
Silk, Joseph
contents Supermassive black hole (SMBH) growth plausibly occurs via runaway astrophysical black hole mergers in nuclear star clusters that form intermediate mass black hole seeds at high redshifts. Such a model yields an order-of-magnitude higher rate of tidal disruption events than that of compact-object captures. Our prediction, normalized to our proposed resolution of SMBH seeding, yields detectable tidal disruption event rates at high redshift. The resulting dense gas cocoons generate compact galactic nuclei, each incorporating a central, massive, black hole star, with comparable masses in gas, stars, and massive black holes within a scale of around a parsec as inferred from the various Little Red Dot spectral signatures.
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spellingShingle Toward Black Hole Stars: supermassive black hole growth in nuclear clusters via stellar-object and gas accretion
Kritos, Konstantinos
Silk, Joseph
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Supermassive black hole (SMBH) growth plausibly occurs via runaway astrophysical black hole mergers in nuclear star clusters that form intermediate mass black hole seeds at high redshifts. Such a model yields an order-of-magnitude higher rate of tidal disruption events than that of compact-object captures. Our prediction, normalized to our proposed resolution of SMBH seeding, yields detectable tidal disruption event rates at high redshift. The resulting dense gas cocoons generate compact galactic nuclei, each incorporating a central, massive, black hole star, with comparable masses in gas, stars, and massive black holes within a scale of around a parsec as inferred from the various Little Red Dot spectral signatures.
title Toward Black Hole Stars: supermassive black hole growth in nuclear clusters via stellar-object and gas accretion
topic High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.15929