Résumé / Abstract Seminaire_IAP
« Tracing the growth of massive black holes  »

Marta Volonteri
Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (Paris, France)

Massive black holes, weighing millions to billions of solar masses, inhabit the centers of today's galaxies. The progenitors of these black holes powered luminous quasars within the first billion years of the Universe. The first massive black holes must therefore have formed around the time the first stars and galaxies formed and then evolved along with their hosts for the past thirteen billion years. I will discuss some aspects of the cosmic evolution of massive black holes, from their formation to their growth and the interplay between black holes and galaxies.
vendredi 7 septembre 2012 - 11:00
Amphithéâtre Henri Mineur, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris
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