AAS 201st Meeting, January, 2003
Session 102. Pierce Prize Lecture
Invited, Wednesday, January 8, 2003, 11:40am-12:30pm, 6AB

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[102.01] Supermassive Black Holes in the Distant Universe

A. J. Barger (U. Wisconsin and U. Hawaii)

High energy X-ray observations reveal the accretion of matter onto supermassive black holes in the distant Universe, even when they are highly obscured by gas and dust. With the Chandra X-ray Observatory, spectacular advances are being made in obtaining a cosmic census of these black holes. Multiwavelength follow-up observations allow us to reconstruct a time history of the accretion. I will also present new observations of faint active galactic nuclei at the very highest redshifts (z>5).

I gratefully acknowledge research support from NSF, NASA, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.


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