Phil Armitage
@philip-armitage.bsky.social
Astrophysicist at Flatiron CCA & Stony Brook working on accretion and planet formation. Also Mr. Pisconti / Nico’s dad / hiker / Zwifter / (lapsed) photographer
New paper, led by Jake Hassan, on the structure and evolution of quasi-stars: accreting black holes embedded in massive envelopes. This is a model for the growth of black hole seeds, and, maybe 🤞, for JWSTs “Little Red Dots”. Time will tell…
arxiv.org/abs/2510.18301
arxiv.org/abs/2510.18301
October 22, 2025 at 4:52 PM
New paper, led by Jake Hassan, on the structure and evolution of quasi-stars: accreting black holes embedded in massive envelopes. This is a model for the growth of black hole seeds, and, maybe 🤞, for JWSTs “Little Red Dots”. Time will tell…
arxiv.org/abs/2510.18301
arxiv.org/abs/2510.18301