The Cosmological Evolution of Supermassive Black Holes

It is now thought that all massive galaxies contain supermassive (> 106 M0 ) black holes. A model relating the history of supermassive black hole growth and the history of dark matter halo assembly is presented. It is based on the Press-Schechter formalism, and an analytic expression for the mean...

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Main Author: Babic, Ana
Published: University of Oxford 2007
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.487136