Extended Data Fig. 3: Final mass of BHs vs initial mass of their PopIII progenitor stars. | Nature Astronomy

Extended Data Fig. 3: Final mass of BHs vs initial mass of their PopIII progenitor stars.

From: The growth of light seed black holes in the early Universe

Extended Data Fig. 3

We show the final masses of BHs as a function of their progenitor PopIII stars. All black dots are BHs that grew larger than their progenitor mass while red dots are BHs that did not accrete any gas. The shaded patch in yellow denotes the BH formed after undergoing a Type-II supernova. The shaded purple patch is for PISN, so there are no BH remnants. While in the white patch are BHs formed through the direct collapse channel. Interestingly, all of the BHs that grow formed through the direct collapse channel.

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