Researchers from the College of Science at the United Arab Emirates University have revealed how the first supermassive black holes in the universe were formed.
A team led by Dr. Mohamed Abdel Latif from the University’s Department of Physics, which included astrophysicists from the UAE, the United Kingdom and Canada, was able to solve the mystery that has puzzled scientists for two decades about how the first extremely bright and hyperactive quasars reached this size inside black holes. supermassive during a short period of the early universe.
The study, titled “Cold turbulent flows led to the formation of the first quasars,” was published in the scientific journal Nature.
Abdullatif said, “This discovery is particularly exciting because it has puzzled astrophysicists who have been trying to explain how the first supermassive black holes were formed for many years. Familiar or ultra-consonant, contrary to what was previously thought.
He added: “Environments hosting massive black holes may have generated between 30,000 and 40,000 solar masses of supermassive stars, and these stars were huge, short-lived and primitive, somewhat similar to the dinosaurs on Earth, and they collapsed into black holes within a few millions of years.”
He continued, “The importance of our new results is not only to explain how the first quasars formed, but also to explain their demographic description – their numbers in the early phases of the universe. Therefore, we believe that the first supermassive black holes were the outgrowth of the cosmic web and a natural result of the formation of the basic structure of cold dark matter in Cosmology and Physics.
The results of the study open the doors to many possibilities that may help scientists explain how the universe evolved, which highlights the university’s quest to contribute to advanced scientific discoveries and studies in addition to its participation in multiple space exploration programs.