Speaker
Ms
Ricarda Beckmann
(University of Oxford)
Description
The growth of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) powering quasars at redshift z=6 and above is still poorly understood. Efforts so far have either concentrated on black hole (BH) seed formation mechanisms, or approximated the SMBHs using massive seeds in low resolution simulations. The work presented here will bridge the gap, following the growth of a SMBH from its origins as a stellar mass seed at high redshift, to its massive representation at redshift z=6. The growth of this object is studied using RAMSES with a custom zoom-within-zoom refinement scheme that allows the gas to be tracked over many orders of magnitude, and offers new insights into the accretion patterns of high redshift black holes.
Author
Ms
Ricarda Beckmann
(University of Oxford)
