English

Dynamics of galaxy cores and supermassive black holes

Astrophysics 2009-11-11 v1

Abstract

Recent work on the dynamical evolution of galactic nuclei containing supermassive black holes is reviewed. Topics include galaxy structural properties; collisionless and collisional equilibria; loss-cone dynamics; and dynamics of binary and multiple supermassive black holes.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0605070,
  title  = {Dynamics of galaxy cores and supermassive black holes},
  author = {David Merritt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0605070},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

75 pages, 28 figures. To appear in Reports on Progress in Physics