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The gravitational wave signature of a binary black hole (BBH) merger is dependent on its component mass and spin. If such black holes originate from rapidly rotating progenitors, the large angular momentum reserve in the star could drive a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-26 Sohan Ghodla , J. J. Eldridge

Stellar-mass binaries evolving in the vicinity of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) may be common in the universe, either in active galactic nuclei or in other astrophysical environments. Here, we study in detail the resonant excitation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-13 João S. Santos , Vitor Cardoso , Alexandru Lupsasca , José Natário , Maarten van de Meent

Eccentric mergers are a signature of the dynamical formation channel of binary black holes (BBHs) in dense stellar environments and hierarchical triple systems. Here, we investigate the formation of eccentric mergers via binary-single…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-20 Marco Dall'Amico , Michela Mapelli , Stefano Torniamenti , Manuel Arca Sedda

We examine the origin and evolution of correlations between properties of supermassive black holes (BHs) and their host galaxies using simulations of major galaxy mergers, including the effects of gas dissipation, cooling, star formation,…

Most stellar evolution models predict that black holes (BHs) should not exist above approximately $50-70$ M$_\odot$, the lower limit of the pair-instability mass gap. However, recent LIGO/Virgo detections indicate the existence of BHs with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-07 Sanaea C. Rose , Smadar Naoz , Re'em Sari , Itai Linial

We systematically performed numerical-relativity simulations for black hole (BH) - neutron star (NS) binary mergers with a variety of the BH spin orientation and equations of state (EOS) of the NS. The initial misalignment angles of the BH…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-07-15 Kyohei Kawaguchi , Koutarou Kyutoku , Hiroyuki Nakano , Hirotada Okawa , Masaru Shibata , Keisuke Taniguchi

Ultra-wide triple black-holes (TBHs; with an outer orbit $>10^3$ AU) in the field can be considerably perturbed by flyby encounters with field stars by the excitation of the outer orbit eccentricities. We study the cumulative effect of such…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-07 Erez Michaely , Hagai G. Perets

We estimate the rate at which stars are captured by supermassive black holes (BHs) in the centres of bulges and elliptical galaxies assuming that these initially had an isothermal cusp (rho ~ r^{-2} with velocity dispersion sigma_*). If…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 HongSheng Zhao , Martin G. Haehnelt , Martin J. Rees

A potential mechanism is proposed to account for the fact that supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in disk galaxies appear to be smaller than those in elliptical galaxies in the same luminosity range. We consider the formation of SMBHs by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Nozomu Kawakatu , Masayuki Umemura

Some X-shaped radio galaxies (XRGs) show a Z-symmetric morphology in the less luminous secondary lobes. Our geometrical arguments strongly support a merger of two galaxies as mechanism for the formation of these sources (ZRG). They also…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Christian Zier

Motivated by observational searches for massive black hole (MBH) pairs at kiloparsec separations we develop a semi-analytic model to describe their orbital evolution under the influence of stellar and gaseous dynamical friction (DF). The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-05 Kunyang Li , Tamara Bogdanovic , David R. Ballantyne

Gravitational waves from the coalescence of binary black holes carry linear momentum, causing center of mass recoil. This ``radiation rocket'' has important implications for systems with escape speeds of order the recoil velocity. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Scott A. Hughes , Marc Favata , Daniel E. Holz

Stellar mass black holes (BHs) are expected to segregate and form a steep density cusp around supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in galactic nuclei. We follow the evolution of a multi-mass system of BHs and stars by numerically integrating…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ryan M. O'Leary , Bence Kocsis , Abraham Loeb

Most of the galaxies harbor supermassive Black Holes (SMBH) in their center. Some of them are observed in very high redshifts. We explore the possibility that SMBH form from the coherent waves of Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) which are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-08 M. Morikawa , S. Takahashi

We perform N-body simulations on a multiple massive black hole (MBH) system in a host galaxy to derive the criteria for successive MBH merger. The calculations incorporate the dynamical friction by stars and general relativistic effects as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Ataru Tanikawa , Masayuki Umemura

In galactic centers, stars and binaries can be injected into low-angular-momentum orbits, resulting in close encounters with the central supermassive black hole (SMBH). Previous works have shown that under different conditions, such close…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-20 Fangyuan Yu , Dong Lai

We perform a simulation for merger of a black hole (BH)-neutron star (NS) binary in full general relativity preparing a quasicircular state as initial condition. The BH is modeled by a moving puncture with no spin and the NS by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Masaru Shibata , Koji Uryu

We consider radio emission from a newborn black hole (BH), which is accompanied by a mini-disk with a mass of $\lesssim M_\odot$. Such a disk can be formed from an outer edge of the progenitor's envelope, especially for metal-poor massive…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-26 Kazumi Kashiyama , Kenta Hotokezaka , Kohta Murase

Recent observations with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have suggested the existence of over-massive black holes (OMBHs) in high-redshift galaxies. In this paper, we propose a new mechanism for the formation of OMBHs, based on the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-03 Hidenobu Yajima

We study the orbital decay of a pair of massive black holes (BHs) with masses 5 * 10^5 and 10^7 M_sun, using hydrodynamical simulations of circumnuclear disks (CNDs) with the alternating presence of sub-grid physics such as radiative…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-29 Rafael Souza Lima , Lucio Mayer , Pedro R. Capelo , Jillian M. Bellovary