Can supermassive black hole seeds form in galaxy mergers?

EFFECTS OF CIRCUMNUCLEAR DISK GAS EVOLUTION ON THE SPIN OF CENTRAL BLACK HOLES

(2013) Umberto Maio et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

A model for (non-lognormal) density distributions in isothermal turbulence

(2013) Philip F. Hopkins   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Supermassive black hole ancestors

(2012) A. Petri et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

The First Galaxies

(2011) Volker Bromm et al.   Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics

Direct formation of supermassive black holes via multi-scale gas inflows in galaxy mergers

(2010) L. Mayer et al.   NATURE

HD and H2 formation in low-metallicity dusty gas clouds at high redshift

(2009) S. Cazaux et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

ANGULAR MOMENTUM TRANSFER AND LACK OF FRAGMENTATION IN SELF-GRAVITATING ACCRETION FLOWS

(2009) Mitchell C. Begelman et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

ACCRETION ONTO THE FIRST STELLAR-MASS BLACK HOLES

(2009) Marcelo A. Alvarez et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

ACCRETION ONTO “SEED” BLACK HOLES IN THE FIRST GALAXIES

(2009) Miloš Milosavljević et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

MOLECULAR GAS IN EXTREME STAR-FORMING ENVIRONMENTS: THE STARBURSTS Arp 220 AND NGC 6240 AS CASE STUDIES

(2009) T. R. Greve et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

THE ASSEMBLY OF SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLES AT HIGH REDSHIFTS

(2009) Takamitsu Tanaka et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Evolution of supermassive stars as a pathway to black hole formation

(2009) Mitchell C. Begelman   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Pathways to massive black holes and compact star clusters in pre-galactic dark matter haloes with virial temperatures ≳10 000 K

(2009) John A. Regan et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Supermassive black hole formation by direct collapse: keeping protogalactic gas H2free in dark matter haloes with virial temperaturesTvir>rsim 104K

(2009) Cien Shang et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Can Supermassive Black Holes Form in Metal‐enriched High‐Redshift Protogalaxies?

(2008) K. Omukai et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Direct Cosmological Simulations of the Growth of Black Holes and Galaxies

(2008) Tiziana Di Matteo et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Quasi-stars: accreting black holes inside massive envelopes

(2008) Mitchell C. Begelman et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY