A Recipe for Early, Massive Black Hole Formation (2 of 7) (IMAGE)

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A Recipe for Early, Massive Black Hole Formation (2 of 7)

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Gas density distribution around the new-born protostar. The left-to-right supersonic gas motion results in the non-spherical, compressed density structure. The collapsed inner cloud also shows the turbulated object, which can rapidly accrete onto the central protostar and cause a fast mass growth of it. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 29 September 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by S. Hirano at University of Texas, Austin in Austin, TX, and colleagues was titled, "Supersonic gas streams enhance the formation of massive black holes in the early universe."

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Shingo Hirano

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