The origins of massive black holes

M Volonteri, M Habouzit, M Colpi - Nature Reviews Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Massive black holes (MBHs) inhabit galactic centres, and power luminous quasars and
active galactic nuclei, shaping their cosmic environment with the energy they produce. The …

Intermediate-mass black holes

JE Greene, J Strader, LC Ho - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
We describe ongoing searches for intermediate-mass black holes with M BH≈ 10–105 M⊙.
We review a range of search mechanisms, both dynamical and those that rely on accretion …

Science with the Einstein Telescope: a comparison of different designs

M Branchesi, M Maggiore, D Alonso… - … of Cosmology and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Einstein Telescope (ET), the European project for a third-generation
gravitational-wave detector, has a reference configuration based on a triangular shape …

Primordial black holes

A Escrivà, F Kühnel, Y Tada - Black Holes in the Era of Gravitational-Wave …, 2024 - Elsevier
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Confirmation and refutation of very luminous galaxies in the early Universe

P Arrabal Haro, M Dickinson, SL Finkelstein… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
During the first 500 million years of cosmic history, the first stars and galaxies formed,
seeding the Universe with heavy elements and eventually reionizing the intergalactic …

Early galaxy formation and its large-scale effects

P Dayal, A Ferrara - Physics Reports, 2018 - Elsevier
Galaxy formation is at the heart of our understanding of cosmic evolution. Although there is a
consensus that galaxies emerged from the expanding matter background by gravitational …

Searching for a subpopulation of primordial black holes in LIGO-Virgo gravitational-wave data

G Franciolini, V Baibhav, V De Luca, KKY Ng… - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
With several dozen binary black hole events detected by LIGO-Virgo to date and many more
expected in the next few years, gravitational-wave astronomy is shifting from individual …

The impact of the first galaxies on cosmic dawn and reionization

JB Munoz, Y Qin, A Mesinger, SG Murray… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The formation of the first galaxies during cosmic dawn and reionization (at redshifts z= 5–
30), triggered the last major phase transition of our universe, as hydrogen evolved from cold …

Bayesian evidence for both astrophysical and primordial black holes: mapping the GWTC-2 catalog to third-generation detectors

V De Luca, G Franciolini, P Pani… - Journal of Cosmology …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We perform a hierarchical Bayesian analysis of the GWTC-2 catalog to investigate the mixed
scenario in which the merger events are explained by black holes of both astrophysical and …

Massive black hole binaries from runaway collisions: the impact of metallicity

M Mapelli - Monthly Notices of The Royal Astronomical Society, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The runaway collision scenario is one of the most promising mechanisms to explain the
formation of intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) in young dense star clusters. On the …