21 March 2016
Using gravitational waves to search for Population III stars
... implemented later this year, although this rate depends sensitively on the primordial initial mass function of the Population III star. Conversely, the team state that by turning this around, the detection of black hole mergers with a total...
30 March 2016
Have astronomers found the signatures of the very first black holes formed through the collapse of gas clouds?
... most obvious way to make primordial SMBH seeds is from the collapse of the hypothesised very first stars - Population III stars – in the early Universe (see https://room.eu.com/news/Using_gravitational_waves...). By a combination of either mergers...
