Affiliation:
1. Department of Physics, Kennesaw State University, Marietta, GA 30060, USA
Abstract
The link between black holes and star formation allows for us to draw a connection between black holes and the places and times when extraterrestrial intelligences (ETIs) had a greater chance of emerging. Within the context of the gap paradigm for black holes, we show that denser cluster environments that led to gas-rich mergers and copious star formation were places less compatible on average with the emergence of ETIs compared to isolated elliptical galaxies by almost two orders of magnitude. The probability for ETIs peaked in these isolated environments around 6 billion years ago and cosmic downsizing shifted the likelihood of ETIs emerging to galaxies with weak black hole feedback, such as in spiral galaxies, at late times.
Subject
Astronomy and Astrophysics
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