ACORN I. Massive Black Hole Seeding and Tidal Disruption Events from Star Clusters in Cosmological Simulations

arXiv:2610.12398 · astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.HE · Submitted 2026-10-08 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.HE

Submitted: 2026-10-08

Updated: 2026-10-08

Terminology

• Metallicity — 26× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Trace — 11× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abundance — 8× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Velocity Dispersion — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AGN — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• AGN Feedback — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Initial Mass Function (IMF) — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• N-body simulations — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Cluster expansion — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Clustering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Gravitational Lensing — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• James Webb Space Telescope — 1× in this paper
• Little Red Dots — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Little Red Dots (LRDs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Stellar Feedback — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Formation of Heavy Seed Black Holes and Little Red Dots-like Compact Clusters in Metal-enriched Star-forming Regions
• From Dense Gas Clouds to Supermassive Black Hole Seeds: Hybrid Hydro/Direct $N$-body Simulations of Runaway Collision-driven Intermediate-mass Black Hole Formation
• Introducing AuriGLOBES: The effects of compressive tides, compact object-induced mass loss, and size evolution on modelling globular clusters
• Individual Star Sampling in Star Formation Simulations: A Semi-Deterministic Model
• A cosmological framework for stellar collisions at high redshift in proto-globular clusters, nuclear star clusters, and Little Red Dots
• First results of AMBRA: Abundant Seeds and Early Mergers as a Pathway to the First Massive Black Holes

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