{
  "id": "2404.11676",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2024-04-17T18:17:48.000Z",
  "updated": "2024-04-17T18:17:48.000Z",
  "title": "Supermassive black holes from runaway mergers and accretion in nuclear star clusters",
  "authors": [
    "Konstantinos Kritos",
    "Emanuele Berti",
    "Joseph Silk"
  ],
  "comment": "4 pages, 3 figures",
  "categories": [
    "astro-ph.HE",
    "gr-qc"
  ],
  "abstract": "Rapid formation of supermassive black holes occurs in dense nuclear star clusters that are initially gas-dominated. Stellar-mass black hole remnants of the most massive cluster sink into the core, where a massive runaway black hole forms as a consequence of combined effects of repeated mergers and Eddington-limited gas accretion. The associated gravitational-wave signals of high-redshift extreme mass-ratio inspirals are a unique signature of the nuclear star cluster scenario.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2024-04-17T18:17:48.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "supermassive black holes",
      "runaway mergers",
      "nuclear star cluster scenario",
      "dense nuclear star clusters",
      "high-redshift extreme mass-ratio inspirals"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 4,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}