Astronomers have discovered the progenitors of supermassive black holes

The study of the formation of supermassive black holes is an important topic in modern astrophysics. Leading theory

suggests that the seeds of supermassive blackholes formed after the death of the first massive stars in the early Universe. They then continued to accumulate surrounding gas and finally became supermassive black holes. However, this theory has been disputed. The fact is that the mass of the most massive stars observed in the local universe is 100-200 solar masses. They would not be able to maintain a high level of accretion of matter.

In a new article published in the magazine Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society,researchers have uncovered the possible existencesupernova class. Their progenitors were stars with the mass of tens of thousands of Suns. They existed in the early Universe in small numbers. Modeling of these objects showed that during the upcoming mission of the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have a chance to observe such a supernova, which in this case will confirm the theory about the mechanism of the appearance of supermassive black holes.

Recall that a supermassive black hole isa black hole with a mass of 105–1011 solar masses. Supermassive black holes have been found at the center of many galaxies, including the Milky Way. Paradoxically, the average density of a supermassive black hole (calculated by dividing the black hole's mass by its Schwarzschild volume) can be very small (even less than the density of air in Earth's lower atmosphere ). This is explained by the fact that the Schwarzschild radius is directly proportional to mass, and density is inversely proportional to volume.

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