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Black hole growth in the early Universe is self-regulated and largely hidden from view

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  • Ezequiel Treister

    (Institute for Astronomy, 2680 Woodlawn Drive, University of Hawaii
    Universidad de Concepción, Casilla 160-C)

  • Kevin Schawinski

    (Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, PO Box 208121
    Yale University, PO Box 208121)

  • Marta Volonteri

    (University of Michigan)

  • Priyamvada Natarajan

    (Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, PO Box 208121
    Yale University, PO Box 208121
    Yale University, PO Box 208101
    Institute for Theory and Computation, Harvard University)

  • Eric Gawiser

    (Rutgers University)

Abstract

An early glimpse of black hole growth A study of archival X-ray data from the Chandra X-ray observatory provides a measure of black hole growth at the earliest epochs at which observations are possible, around 600 million years after the Big Bang, at a redshift of z = 6–8. The results imply that black holes grow in tandem with their host galaxies, starting from the earliest times. The most copiously accreting black holes are buried in significant amounts of gas and dust that absorb most radiation except for the highest energy X-rays, and do not contribute to the re-ionization of the Universe.

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  • Ezequiel Treister & Kevin Schawinski & Marta Volonteri & Priyamvada Natarajan & Eric Gawiser, 2011. "Black hole growth in the early Universe is self-regulated and largely hidden from view," Nature, Nature, vol. 474(7351), pages 356-358, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:474:y:2011:i:7351:d:10.1038_nature10103
    DOI: 10.1038/nature10103
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