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Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are tiny in comparison to the galaxies they inhabit, yet they manage to influence and coevolve along with their hosts. Evidence of this mutual development is observed in the structure and dynamics of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-12 Benjamin L. Davis , Zehao Jin

Studies have suggested that there is a strong correlation between the masses of nuclear star clusters (NSCs) and their host galaxies, a correlation which said to be an extension of the well-known correlations between supermassive black…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-21 Peter Erwin , Dimitri Gadotti

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,…

The scaling relations between the mass of supermassive black holes ($M_{\bullet}$) and host galaxy properties (stellar mass, $M_{\star}$, and velocity dispersion, $\sigma$), provide a link between the growth of black holes (BHs) and that of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-06 Kuan-Wei Huang , Tiziana Di Matteo , Aklant K. Bhowmick , Yu Feng , Chung-Pei Ma

Recent studies have suggested a strong correlation between the masses of nuclear star clusters and their host galaxies, an extension of the known correlations between supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and their host galaxies. By focusing on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Peter Erwin , Dimitri Gadotti

We study the scaling relation between the black hole and stellar mass ($M_\bullet-M_*$), diagnosing the residual $\Delta \log(M_\bullet/M_\odot)$ ($\Delta$) in this relation to understand the coevolution of the galaxy and black hole (BH) in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-29 Wenlin Ma , Weiguang Cui , Romeel Davé , Daniel Anglés-Alcázar , Hong Guo

The interaction between supermassive black hole (SMBH) feedback and the circumgalactic medium (CGM) continues to be an open question in galaxy evolution. In our study, we use SPH simulations to explore the impact of SMBH feedback on…

The origin of the tight scaling relation between the mass of supermassive black holes (SMBHs; $M_{\rm BH}$) and their host-galaxy properties remains unclear. Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) probe phases of ongoing SMBH growth and offer the…

We study the scaling between bulge magnitude and central black hole (BH) mass in galaxies with virial BH masses < 10^6 solar mass. Based on careful image decomposition of a snapshot Hubble Space Telescope I-band survey, we found that these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-08 Yan-Fei Jiang , Jenny E. Greene , Luis C. Ho

We investigate the evolution of the MBH-{\sigma} relation by examining the relationship between the intrinsic scatter in the MBH-{\sigma} relation and galaxy bolometric nuclear luminosity, the latter being a probe of the accretion rate of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-04 Gongjie Li , Charlie Conroy , Abraham Loeb

Super-massive black holes, with masses larger than a million times that of the Sun, appear to inhabit the centers of all massive galaxies. Cosmologically-motivated theories of galaxy formation need feedback from these super-massive black…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-04 Ignacio Martin-Navarro , Jean P. Brodie , Aaron J. Romanowsky , Tomas Ruiz-Lara , Glenn van de Ven

Accretion of matter onto central Black Holes (BHs) in galaxies liberates enormous amounts of feedback energy, which influence the formation and evolution of structures, affecting the environment from pc to Mpc scales. These BHs are usually…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-15 Paramita Barai , Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino

A positive observational proof suggests that most galaxies contain a central supermassive black hole (SMBH) with mass in the range of $10^6M_\odot$ $-$ $10^{10}M_\odot$. It is suggested that the mass of SMBHs is proportionally related to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-31 Aryan Bansal , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Hiroyuki Tashiro , Yoshiki Matsuoka

We present new stringent limits on the mass $M_{bh}$ of the central supermassive black hole for a sample of 7 nearby galaxies. Our $M_{bh}$ estimates are based on the dynamical modeling of the central width of the nebular emission lines…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-08 I. Pagotto , E. M. Corsini , E. Dalla Bontà , A. Beifiori , L. Costantin , V. Cuomo , L. Morelli , A. Pizzella , M. Sarzi

It is common to estimate black hole abundances by using a measured correlation between black hole mass and another more easily measured observable such as the velocity dispersion or luminosity of the surrounding bulge. The correlation is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 M. Bernardi , R. K. Sheth , E. Tundo , J. B. Hyde

We investigate the relationship between black hole mass and host galaxy properties for active galaxies with the lowest black hole masses currently known in galaxy nuclei. Hubble Space Telescope imaging confirms that the host galaxies have…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jenny E. Greene , Luis C. Ho , Aaron J. Barth

Semi-analytical models in a $\Lambda$CDM cosmology have predicted the presence of outlying, "overmassive" black holes at the high-mass end of the (black hole mass -- galaxy velocity dispersion) $M_{\rm BH} - \sigma$ diagram (which we update…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Giulia A. D. Savorgnan , Alister W. Graham

Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are known to correlate with many properties of their host galaxies, but we do not fully understand these correlations. The strengths (tightness) of these correlations have also been widely debated. In this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-24 Jacob Reinheimer , Yuan Li , Trung Ha , Melanie Habouzit , Brandon M. Matthews , George Blaney

Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are nowadays believed to reside in most local galaxies, and the available data show an empirical correlation between bulge luminosity - or stellar velocity dispersion - and black hole mass, suggesting a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Marta Volonteri

The masses of the central black holes of Active Galactic Nuclei estimated by the reverberation virial technique seem to be significantly smaller than predicted from the black hole mass-bulge luminosity relation for massive black holes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Amri Wandel