A Candidate Supermassive Black Hole in a Gravitationally Lensed Galaxy at Z ≈ 10

While supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are widely observed in the nearby and distant Universe, their origin remains debated with two viable formation scenarios with light and heavy seeds. In the light seeding model, the seed of the first SMBHs form from the collapse of massive stars with masses of 1...

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Main Authors: Orsolya E. Kovács, Ákos Bogdán, Priyamvada Natarajan, Norbert Werner, Mojegan Azadi, Marta Volonteri, Grant R. Tremblay, Urmila Chadayammuri, William R. Forman, Christine Jones, Ralph P. Kraft
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2024-01-01
Series:The Astrophysical Journal Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ad391f