Talk Title: Formation of the First Supermassive Black Holes
Abstract: I consider the physical conditions under which supermassive black holes could have formed inside the first galaxies. Numerical simulations indicate that metal-free dwarf galaxies, collapsing at z~10, and with H2 formation suppressed, tend to form a binary black hole system that contains a substantial fraction (> 10%) of the total baryonic mass of the host galaxy. These early black holes lead to quasar activity before the epoch of reionization.
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