On monolithic supermassive stars

Formation of massive black holes in rapidly growing pre-galactic gas clouds

(2019) John H. Wise et al.   NATURE

On the detection of supermassive primordial stars – II. Blue supergiants

(2019) Marco Surace et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Maximally accreting supermassive stars: a fundamental limit imposed by hydrostatic equilibrium

(2019) L. Haemmerlé et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Formation of massive seed black holes via collisions and accretion

(2018) T C N Boekholt et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Concurrent formation of supermassive stars and globular clusters: implications for early self-enrichment

(2018) Mark Gieles et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

THE ROUTE TO MASSIVE BLACK HOLE FORMATION VIA MERGER-DRIVEN DIRECT COLLAPSE: A REVIEW

(2018) Lucio Mayer et al.   REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS

Dwarf galaxies might not be the birth sites of supermassive black holes

(2018) Mar Mezcua   Nature Astronomy

Observational evidence for intermediate-mass black holes

(2017) Mar Mezcua   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS D

The evolution of supermassive Population III stars

(2017) Lionel Haemmerlé et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Rapid formation of massive black holes in close proximity to embryonic protogalaxies

(2017) John A. Regan et al.   Nature Astronomy

Formation of Supermassive Black Hole Seeds

(2016) Muhammad A. Latif et al.   PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA

THE GENERAL RELATIVISTIC INSTABILITY SUPERNOVA OF A SUPERMASSIVE POPULATION III STAR

(2014) Ke-Jung Chen et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

FORMATION OF PRIMORDIAL SUPERMASSIVE STARS BY RAPID MASS ACCRETION

(2013) Takashi Hosokawa et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

The effect of baryonic streaming motions on the formation of the first supermassive black holes

(2013) Takamitsu L. Tanaka et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

THE FORMATION OF SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLES FROM LOW-MASS POP III SEEDS

(2012) Daniel J. Whalen et al.   Astrophysical Journal Letters

High-redshift formation and evolution of central massive objects - II. The census of BH seeds

(2012) B. Devecchi et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

A luminous quasar at a redshift of z = 7.085

(2011) Daniel J. Mortlock et al.   NATURE

Formation of supermassive black holes

(2010) Marta Volonteri   ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS REVIEW

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

(2010) L. Mayer et al.   NATURE

Evolution of supermassive stars as a pathway to black hole formation

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

Fluctuations in the high-redshift Lyman-Werner background: close halo pairs as the origin of supermassive black holes

(2008) Mark Dijkstra et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY