Talk detail

Participant	King, Andrew
Institution	University of Leicester - University Rd - Leicester - Leics - United Kingdom

Session	TC1	Accepted		Order	Time
Talk	Oral abstract	Title	Accretion and growth of supermassive black holes
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Abstract	The centre of almost every galaxy hosts a supermassive black hole. There is good evidence that the holes were able to grow to large masses on rather short timescales, and did so through luminous accretion. But the viscous timescale for even modest-sized accretion discs approaches a Hubble time. I discuss ways in which this angular momentum barrier may be overcome, and how the black hole growth is related to the evolution of the host galaxy.