Detecting direct collapse black holes: making the case for CR7

New constraints on direct collapse black hole formation in the early Universe

(2016) Bhaskar Agarwal et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Shining in the dark: the spectral evolution of the first black holes

(2015) Fabio Pacucci et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Supermassive black hole formation at high redshifts via direct collapse in a cosmological context

(2015) Jun-Hwan Choi et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Supermassive black hole seed formation at high redshifts: long-term evolution of the direct collapse

(2015) Isaac Shlosman et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Simulating the formation of massive seed black holes in the early Universe – II. Impact of rate coefficient uncertainties

(2015) Simon C. O. Glover   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Simulating the formation of massive seed black holes in the early Universe – I. An improved chemical model

(2015) Simon C. O. Glover   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Identification of the brightest Lyα emitters at z = 6.6: implications for the evolution of the luminosity function in the reionization era

(2015) Jorryt Matthee et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Comprehensive assessment of the too big to fail problem

(2015) Fangzhou Jiang et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

An ultraluminous quasar with a twelve-billion-solar-mass black hole at redshift 6.30

(2015) Xue-Bing Wu et al.   NATURE

ONE HUNDRED FIRST STARS: PROTOSTELLAR EVOLUTION AND THE FINAL MASSES

(2014) Shingo Hirano et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Revised rate coefficients for H2 and H− destruction by realistic stellar spectra

(2014) Bhaskar Agarwal et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

The critical radiation intensity for direct collapse black hole formation: dependence on the radiation spectral shape

(2014) Kazuyuki Sugimura et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Coming of age in the dark sector: how dark matter haloes grow their gravitational potential wells

(2014) Frank C. van den Bosch et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

The First Billion Years project: birthplaces of direct collapse black holes

(2014) Bhaskar Agarwal et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Rapid growth of seed black holes in the early universe by supra-exponential accretion

(2014) T. Alexander et al.   SCIENCE

Massive black hole factories: Supermassive and quasi-star formation in primordial halos

(2013) Dominik R. G. Schleicher et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

FORMATION OF PRIMORDIAL SUPERMASSIVE STARS BY RAPID MASS ACCRETION

(2013) Takashi Hosokawa et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

THE AVERAGE STAR FORMATION HISTORIES OF GALAXIES IN DARK MATTER HALOS FROMz= 0-8

(2013) Peter S. Behroozi et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

DISCOVERY OF THREEz> 6.5 QUASARS IN THE VISTA KILO-DEGREE INFRARED GALAXY (VIKING) SURVEY

(2013) B. P. Venemans et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

THE SPECTRAL ENERGY DISTRIBUTIONS OFz∼ 8 GALAXIES FROM THE IRAC ULTRA DEEP FIELDS: EMISSION LINES, STELLAR MASSES, AND SPECIFIC STAR FORMATION RATES AT 650 MYR

(2013) I. Labbé et al.   Astrophysical Journal Letters

The characteristic black hole mass resulting from direct collapse in the early Universe

(2013) M. A. Latif et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Unravelling obese black holes in the first galaxies

(2013) Bhaskar Agarwal et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Ubiquitous seeding of supermassive black holes by direct collapse

(2012) Bhaskar Agarwal et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

THE SPECTRAL EVOLUTION OF THE FIRST GALAXIES. I.JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPEDETECTION LIMITS AND COLOR CRITERIA FOR POPULATION III GALAXIES

(2011) Erik Zackrisson et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

SEVEN-YEARWILKINSON MICROWAVE ANISOTROPY PROBE(WMAP) OBSERVATIONS: COSMOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION

(2011) E. Komatsu et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES

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

STAR FORMATION RATES AND STELLAR MASSES OFz= 7–8 GALAXIES FROM IRAC OBSERVATIONS OF THE WFC3/IR EARLY RELEASE SCIENCE AND THE HUDF FIELDS

(2010) I. Labbé et al.   Astrophysical Journal Letters

Accretion on to black holes formed by direct collapse

(2010) Jarrett L. Johnson et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

ACCRETION ONTO THE FIRST STELLAR-MASS BLACK HOLES

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

ULTRADEEP INFRARED ARRAY CAMERA OBSERVATIONS OF SUB-L*z∼ 7 ANDz∼ 8 GALAXIES IN THE HUBBLE ULTRA DEEP FIELD: THE CONTRIBUTION OF LOW-LUMINOSITY GALAXIES TO THE STELLAR MASS DENSITY AND REIONIZATION

(2009) I. Labbé et al.   Astrophysical Journal Letters

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

Lower Metal Enrichment of Virialized Gas in Minihalos

(2008) Renyue Cen 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