22 March 2017
Massive quasars can be powered by direct collapse black holes say scientists
... for an unusual kind of black hole born extremely early in the Universe. Termed ‘direct collapse’ black holes (DCBHs), these massive objects start from a "seed" black hole, created when an extremely massive star collapses. It was then postulated that...
30 March 2016
Have astronomers found the signatures of the very first black holes formed through the collapse of gas clouds?
... III-like stellar population, it is now suggested though that this object could instead be powered by accretion onto a direct collapse black hole (DCBH). In order to try and determine the origins of objects such as these and to thus test and refine...
