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Numerical simulations demonstrate rapid seed black hole growth in dense molecular clouds, suggesting a viable pathway for early supermassive black hole formation.
The detection of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in high-redshift luminous quasars may require a phase of rapid accretion, and as a precondition, substantial gas influx toward seed black holes (BHs) from kilo-parsec or parsec scales. Our previous research demonstrated the plausibility of such gas supply for BH seeds within star-forming giant molecular clouds (GMCs) with high surface density (~ 10⁴\, M_\, pc⁻²), facilitating ``hyper-Eddington'' accretion via efficient feeding by dense clumps which are driven by turbulence and stellar feedback. This article investigates the impacts of feedback from accreting BHs on this process, including radiation, mechanical jets, and highly relativistic cosmic rays. We run a suite of numerical simulations to explore diverse parameter spaces of BH feedback, including the sub-grid accretion model, feedback energy efficiency, mass loading factor, and initial metallicity. Utilizing radiative feedback models inferred from the slim disk, we find that hyper-Eddington accretion is still achievable, yielding BH bolometric luminosities as high as 10⁴¹ -- 10⁴⁴\, erg/s, depending on the GMC properties and specific feedback model assumed. We find the maximum possible mass growth of seed BHs (Δ MBHᵐᵃˣ) is regulated by the momentum deposition rate from BH feedback, ṗfeedback/(ṀBH c), which leads to an analytic scaling that agrees well with simulations. This scenario predicts the rapid formation of ~ 10⁴\, M_ intermediate-massive BHs (IMBHs) from stellar-mass BHs within ~ Myr. Furthermore, we examine the impacts of sub-grid accretion models and how BH feedback may influence star formation within these cloud complexes.
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