Did supermassive black holes form by direct collapse?

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 990, Issue , 2008, Pages 489-493

  Begelman, Mitchell C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Accretion, accretion discs; Black hole physics; Galaxies: nuclei; quasars: general

Indexed keywords

EID: 42449164232     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2905669     Document Type: Conference Paper

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