A Candidate Supermassive Black Hole in a Gravitationally Lensed Galaxy at Z ≈ 10

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad391f" target="_blank" >https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad391f</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ad391f" target="_blank" >10.3847/2041-8213/ad391f</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

A Candidate Supermassive Black Hole in a Gravitationally Lensed Galaxy at Z ≈ 10

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

While supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are widely observed in the nearby and distant Universe, their origin remains debated with two viable formation scenarios with light and heavy seeds. In the light seeding model, the seed of the first SMBHs form from the collapse of massive stars with masses of 10-100 M ⊙, while the heavy seeding model posits the formation of 104-5 M ⊙ seeds from direct collapse. The detection of SMBHs at redshifts z ≳ 10, edging closer to their formation epoch, provides critical observational discrimination between these scenarios. Here, we focus on the JWST-detected galaxy, GHZ 9, at z ≈ 10 that is lensed by the foreground cluster, A2744. Based on 2.1 Ms deep Chandra observations, we detect a candidate X-ray active galactic nucleus (AGN), which is spatially coincident with the high-redshift galaxy, GHZ 9. The SMBH candidate is inferred to have a bolometric luminosity of ( 1.0 − 0.4 + 0.5 ) × 10 46 erg s − 1 , which corresponds to a black hole (BH) mass of ( 8.0 − 3.2 + 3.7 ) × 10 7 M ⊙ assuming Eddington-limited accretion. This extreme mass at such an early cosmic epoch suggests the heavy seed origin for this BH candidate. Based on the Chandra and JWST discoveries of extremely high-redshift quasars, we have constructed the first simple AGN luminosity function extending to z ≈ 10. Comparison of this luminosity function with theoretical models indicates an overabundant z ≈ 10 SMBH population, consistent with a higher-than-expected seed formation efficiency.

Název v anglickém jazyce

A Candidate Supermassive Black Hole in a Gravitationally Lensed Galaxy at Z ≈ 10

Popis výsledku anglicky

While supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are widely observed in the nearby and distant Universe, their origin remains debated with two viable formation scenarios with light and heavy seeds. In the light seeding model, the seed of the first SMBHs form from the collapse of massive stars with masses of 10-100 M ⊙, while the heavy seeding model posits the formation of 104-5 M ⊙ seeds from direct collapse. The detection of SMBHs at redshifts z ≳ 10, edging closer to their formation epoch, provides critical observational discrimination between these scenarios. Here, we focus on the JWST-detected galaxy, GHZ 9, at z ≈ 10 that is lensed by the foreground cluster, A2744. Based on 2.1 Ms deep Chandra observations, we detect a candidate X-ray active galactic nucleus (AGN), which is spatially coincident with the high-redshift galaxy, GHZ 9. The SMBH candidate is inferred to have a bolometric luminosity of ( 1.0 − 0.4 + 0.5 ) × 10 46 erg s − 1 , which corresponds to a black hole (BH) mass of ( 8.0 − 3.2 + 3.7 ) × 10 7 M ⊙ assuming Eddington-limited accretion. This extreme mass at such an early cosmic epoch suggests the heavy seed origin for this BH candidate. Based on the Chandra and JWST discoveries of extremely high-redshift quasars, we have constructed the first simple AGN luminosity function extending to z ≈ 10. Comparison of this luminosity function with theoretical models indicates an overabundant z ≈ 10 SMBH population, consistent with a higher-than-expected seed formation efficiency.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

10308 - Astronomy (including astrophysics,space science)

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GX21-13491X" target="_blank" >GX21-13491X: Zkoumání žhavého vesmíru a porozumění kosmické zpětné vazbě</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2024

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Astrophysical Journal Letters

ISSN

2041-8205

e-ISSN

2041-8213

Svazek periodika

965

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

8

Strana od-do

1-8

Kód UT WoS článku

001200537400001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85190425512