17–31 Jul 2025
Orthodox Academy of Crete, Kolymbari, Crete, Greece
Europe/Athens timezone
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Massive black hole formation as a gravitational phase transition in compact gaseous clouds

24 Jul 2025, 11:25
25m
Room 1

Room 1

Talk Workshop on Astro-Cosmo-Gravity Workshop on Astro-Cosmo-Gravity

Speaker

Zacharias Roupas (Physics department, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)

Description

The existence of gaseous proto-stellar clusters with initial gas mass from one to one hundred million solar masses, and high temperature, primarily composed of atomic hydrogen at the epoch of reionization is strongly supported by cosmological, astrophysical, and recent direct observational evidence. Such systems form from the collapse of a respective compact massive cloud. We consider the possibility of direct formation of a central massive black hole halting the initial collapse. We assume a two component system consisting of a central black hole accreting gas at a steady isotropic state and a gaseous hydrostatic isothermal envelope exceeding to the virial radius of such a massive cloud. We study the thermodynamic equilibria of this system and identify phase transitions from a gaseous phase to a centrally condensed state of a massive black hole with a diluted gaseous atmosphere.

Details

Dr Zacharias Roupas
Marie Curie Research Fellow, P.I.
Department of Physics
University of Milano-Bicocca
https://www.fisica.unimib.it/en/research/astrophysics/milano-bicocca-astrophysics-group

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Author

Zacharias Roupas (Physics department, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)

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