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Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are powered by accretion disks onto supermassive black holes in the the centers of galaxies. AGN are believed to play important roles in the evolution of both supermassive black holes and their host galaxies…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-11 K. E. Saavik Ford , Barry McKernan

Jet feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) is one of the most promising mechanisms for suppressing cooling flows in cool-core clusters. However, the composition of AGN jets and bubbles remains uncertain; they could be thermally…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-25 Yen-Hsing Lin , H. -Y. Karen Yang , Ellis R. Owen

Radio relics are arc-like synchrotron sources at the periphery of galaxy clusters, produced by cosmic-ray electrons in a $\mu$G magnetic field which are believed to have been (re-)accelerated by merger shock fronts. However, not all relics…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-01 John ZuHone , Kristian Ehlert , Rainer Weinberger , Christoph Pfrommer

AGN feedback now appears as an attractive mechanism to resolve some of the outstanding problems with the "standard" cosmological models, in particular those related to massive galaxies. To directly constrain how this may influence the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. P. H. Nesvadba , M. D. Lehnert , C. De Breuck , A. M. Gilbert , W. van Breugel

Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) have been proposed as plausible sites for hosting a sizable fraction of the binary black hole (BBH) mergers measured through gravitational waves (GWs) by the LIGO-Virgo-Kagra (LVK) experiment. These GWs could…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-20 J. C. Rodríguez-Ramírez , C. R. Bom , B. Fraga , R. Nemmen

We conducted 3D-MHD simulations to investigate the feedback processes in the central 1kpc scale of galaxies hosting both active star formation (SF) and an AGN wind. Our simulations naturally generated a turbulent and clumpy interstellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-21 William E. Clavijo-Bohórquez , Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , Claudio Melioli

Relativistic jets of plasma are a key ingredient of many types of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). Today we know that AGNs are powered by the accretion of inter stellar material into the gravitational field of a Super Massive Black Hole and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-24 Giovanni La Mura , Giovanni Busetto , Stefano Ciroi , Piero Rafanelli , Marco Berton , Enrico Congiu , Valentina Cracco , Michele Frezzato

The magnetic field is believed to play a critical role in the bulk acceleration and propagation of jets produced in active galactic nuclei (AGN). Polarization observations of AGN jets provide valuable information about their magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-26 Jongho Park , Juan Carlos Algaba

Active Galactic Nuclei are powered by geometrically-thin accretion disks surrounding a central supermassive black hole. Here we explore the evolution of stars embedded in these extreme astrophysical environments (AGN stars). Because AGN…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-07 Matteo Cantiello , Adam S. Jermyn , Douglas N. C. Lin

The radio jets of an active galactic nucleus (AGN) can heat up the gas around a host galaxy and quench star formation activity. The presence of a radio jet could be related to the evolutionary path of the host galaxy and may be imprinted in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-03 Xuechen Zheng , Huub Röttgering , Arjen van der Wel , Michele Cappellari

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) in cosmological simulations generate explosive feedback that regulates star formation in massive galaxies, modifying the gas phase structure out to large distances. Here, we explore the direct effects that AGN…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-06 Aura Obreja , Fabrizio Arrigoni Battaia , Andrea V. Macciò , Tobias Buck

The effect of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) on their host galaxies -- in particular their levels of star formation -- remains one of the key outstanding questions of galaxy evolution. Successful cosmological models of galaxy evolution…

That jetted active galactic nuclei (AGN) are also hosted in spiral galaxies is now well established. Our understanding of how such objects might fit in the radio loud AGN subclass has been described by Foschini and others over the past…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-21 Chandra B. Singh , David Garofalo

Some main-sequence stars of spectral type A are observed to have a strong (300-30000 G), static, large-scale magnetic field, of a chiefly dipolar shape -- the `Ap stars' (for example Alioth, the fifth star in the Big Dipper). Following…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Braithwaite , H. C. Spruit

We suggest that stable states of positronium might exist in the jets of active galactic nuclei (AGN). Electrons and positrons are created near the accretion disks of supermassive black holes at the centers of AGN and are accelerated along…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-10-05 John T. Giblin , Janine Shertzer

Theory and simulations suggest that magnetic fields from radio jets and lobes powered by their central super massive black holes can be an important source of magnetic fields in the galaxy clusters. This is paper II in a series of studies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Hao Xu , Hui Li , David C. Collins , Shengtai Li , Michael L. Norman

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) feedback is a key physical mechanism proposed to regulate star formation, primarily in massive galaxies. In particular, cosmic rays associated with AGN jets have the potential to efficiently suppress cooling…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-04 Kung-Yi Su , Greg L. Bryan , Philip F. Hopkins , Priyamvada Natarajan , Sam B. Ponnada , Razieh Emami , Yue Samuel Lu

The disks of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs), traditionally studied as the feeders of the supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at their centers, have recently triggered a lot of interest also as hosts to massive stars and hence their neutron star…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-27 Rosalba Perna , Davide Lazzati , Matteo Cantiello

The actual mechanism(s) powering galactic outflows in active galactic nuclei (AGN) is still a matter of debate. At least two physical models have been considered in the literature: wind shocks and radiation pressure on dust. Here we provide…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-10 W. Ishibashi , A. C. Fabian , N. Arakawa

AGN feedback is invoked as one of the most relevant mechanisms that shape the evolution of galaxies. Our goal is to understand the interplay between AGN feedback and the interstellar medium in M51, a nearby spiral galaxy with a modest AGN…

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