Disentangling nature from nurture: tracing the origin of seed black holes
by Priyamvada Natarajan, Vivienne Baldassare, Jillian Bellovary, Peter Bender, Emanuele Berti, Nico Cappelluti, Andrea Ferrara, Jenny Greene, Zoltan Haiman, Kelly Holley-Bockelmann, Guido Mueller, Fabio Pacucci, David Shoemaker, Michael Tremmel, C. Meg Urry, Alexey Vikhlinin, and Marta Volonteri
Published onMay 31, 2019
Disentangling nature from nurture: tracing the origin of seed black holes
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Abstract
The origin of seed black holes is fiercely debated and is one of the key open questions in cosmology today. Gravitational wave events from supermassive binary black hole coalescences coupled with multi-messenger data can help disentangle initial seeding conditions from accretion and dynamics that modulate black hole growth over cosmic time.
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