Cosmological formation of quasar black holes

Mar, 1992
40 pages
Published in:
  • Astrophys.J. 403 (1993) 542
Report number:
  • IASSNS-AST-92-8

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Abstract: (ADS)
The formation of black holes with masses of the order of over 100,000 solar masses is noted to be possible upon the quasi-spherical collapse of gas clouds, on the basis of nonlinear density perturbations above the Jeans mass after the cosmological recombination. After the cloud has collapsed by a few order of magnitude in radius, the photons become trapped and transport angular momentum only locally, through radiative viscosity; the black hole produced when the cloud collapses quasi-spherically down to its Schwartzchild scale is surrounded by a dark-matter halo.