Talk Title: The host haloes of the most massive black holes at z>6
Abstract: SDSS quasars at redshifts z>6 are powered by black holes with masses greater than a billion solar masses - equivalent to the most massive in the local universe. Do these quasars act as signposts to the first massive structures to have formed? What are the masses of the dark haloes in which the quasars reside? I will discuss recent observations in the optical and sub-millimetre to identify galaxies associated with these distant quasars and hence estimate the properties of their host haloes.
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