The Cosmological History of Accretion onto Supermassive Black Holes
It is argued that supermassive black holes in the nuclei of galaxies most likely have grown coevally with their host dark matter halos. A calculation based on Press-Schechter within this framework shows that the mean rate of accretion of matter onto such black holes varies from a value about 0.003 o...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2005
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