Al Ain (Union)
The Department of Physics at the College of Science at the United Arab Emirates University conducted a research study titled “Cold turbulent flows led to the formation of the first quasars.”
This study, which sheds light on how the first supermassive black holes were formed in the universe, was published in the peer-reviewed scientific journal Nature. Dr. Mohamed Abdel Latif from the University’s Department of Physics led a distinguished team of astrophysicists from the UAE, the United Kingdom and Canada, and the team was able to solve the mystery that has puzzled scientists for two decades regarding how the first extremely bright and extremely active quasars reached this point. The massive volume inside supermassive black holes during a short period of the early universe.
Dr. Mohamed Abdel Latif pointed out that “this discovery is a particularly exciting discovery. Because it puzzled astrophysicists who have been trying to explain how the first supermassive black holes formed for many years.”
Rare gas tanks
Dr. Mohamed Abdel Latif said: “Our study shows that the first supermassive black holes appeared in rare and turbulent gas basins in the early universe without unfamiliar or super-harmonious environments, contrary to what was previously believed. In fact, environments hosting massive black holes may have generated between 30,000 and 40,000 solar masses of massive stars. These stars were huge, short-lived and primitive, a bit like dinosaurs on Earth, and they collapsed into black holes within a few million years.”
the odds
Dr. Mohamed Abdel Latif concluded his speech by saying: “The importance of our new results is not limited to explaining how the first quasars were formed, but also explaining their demographic description – their numbers in the early stages of the universe. Therefore, we believe that the first supermassive black holes were an outgrowth of the cosmic web and a corollary of the formation of the basic structure of cold dark matter in cosmology and physics.” It is noted that the innovative nature of these results opens 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.
