11–16 Dec 2022
Australia/Adelaide timezone
Co-locating with the 7th International Workshop of Specialty Optical Fibres and Their Applications (WSOF), the Australian and New Zealand Conference on Optics and Photonics (ANZCOP), and the Conference on Optoelectronlc and Microelectronic Materials and Devices (COMMAD)

Supermassive black holes from supermassive stars

Not scheduled
15m
Room R3 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

Room R3

Adelaide Convention Centre

Talk (preferred) AIP: Astronomy AIP: Group for Astroparticle Physics / Astronomy

Speaker

Alexander Heger (Monash University)

Description

The formation of supermassive black holes that power high-redshift quasars poses a challenge to our understanding of era of first stars and first galaxies. We present models of supermassive stars and their fates.

Author

Alexander Heger (Monash University)

Presentation materials