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Observed accretion rates onto the Milky-Way and other local spirals fall short of that required to sustain star formation for cosmological timescales. A potential avenue for this unseen accretion is an inflow in the volume-filling hot phase…

We use FLAMINGO to investigate why feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) significantly depletes gas in galaxy groups but is ineffective in clusters. We delineate three radial zones: an inner zone where AGN feedback heats halo gas via…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-19 Andrew Pontzen , Hiranya V. Peiris , Joop Schaye , Matthieu Schaller

The tight empirical $M-\sigma$ relation between the mass of a SMBH) and the velocity dispersion of the host galaxy bulge is often interpreted as the result of self-regulation by AGN feedback. This picture is motivated by analytical and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-20 Matas Tartėnas , Kastytis Zubovas , Eimantas Skuodas

(Abridged) Infrared high-resolution imaging and interferometry have shown that the dust distribution is frequently elongated along the polar direction of an AGN. To explain these findings, we developed a model scenario for the inner ~30 pc…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-15 B. Vollmer , M. Schartmann , L. Burtscher , F. Marin , S. Hoenig , R. Davies , R. Goosmann

Young radio AGN are pivotal for our understanding of many of the still-debated aspects of AGN feedback. In this paper we present a study of the interstellar medium in the compact, peaked-spectrum radio galaxy PKSB1934-63 using X-shooter…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-03 F. Santoro , M. Rose , R. Morganti , C. Tadhunter , T. A. Oosterloo , J. Holt

This is the first paper in a series using our MACER framework to investigate the evolution of a disk galaxy, which emphasizes the role of active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback and incorporates cosmological inflows. This paper presents the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-13 Yuxuan Zou , Feng Yuan , Suoqing Ji , Luis C. Ho , Yingjie Peng , Jing Wang , Bocheng Zhu , Tao Wang

Submillimetre and millimetre observations are important in probing the properties of the molecular gas and dust around obscured active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and their feedback. With very high-resolution (0."02x0."03 (2x3 pc)) ALMA 345 GHz…

Elongated jets from young stellar objects typically present a nodular structure, formed by a chain of bright knots of enhanced emission with individual proper motions. Though it is generally accepted that internal shocks play an important…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Rubini , S. Lorusso , L. Del Zanna , F. Bacciotti

Significant reservoirs of cool gas are observed in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) surrounding galaxies. The CGM is also found to contain substantial amounts of metals and dust, which require some transport mechanism. We consider AGN…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-24 W. Ishibashi , A. C. Fabian

We perform two-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations to study the non-rotating gas flow in the region from 1-1000 parsec. This region connects the galaxy scale and the accretion disk scale. The gas is irradiated by the photons generated by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-01 De-Fu Bu , Xiao-Hong Yang , Bocheng Zhu

AGN jets are thought to be vital ingredients in galaxy evolution through the action of kinetic feedback; however, how narrow, relativistic outflows couple to galaxies remains an open question. Jet deceleration, which is often attributed to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-11 Talia M. O'Shea , Sebastian Heinz , Melinda Soares-Furtado , Zsofi Igo , Andrea Merloni

Several galaxy clusters are known to present multiple and misaligned pairs of cavities seen in X-rays, as well as twisted kiloparsec-scale jets at radio wavelengths. It suggests that the AGN precessing jets play a role in the formation of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-02-02 D. Falceta-Goncalves , A. Caproni , Z. Abraham , E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , D. M. Teixeira

From the scale-free nature of gravity, the structure in the universe is expected to be self-similar on large scales. However, this self-similarity will eventually break down due to small-scale gas physics such as star formation, AGN and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-17 Benjamin A. Seidel , Rhea-Silvia Remus , Lucas M. Valenzuela , Lucas C. Kimmig , Klaus Dolag

In these proceedings I briefly: (1) review the impact (or "feedback") that active galactic nuclei (AGN) are predicted to have on their host galaxies and larger scale environment, (2) review the observational evidence for or against these…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 C. M. Harrison

Recent X-ray observations of clusters of galaxies have shown that the entropy of the intracluster medium (ICM), even at radii as large as half the virial radius, is higher than that expected from gravitational processes alone. This is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Roychowdhury , M. Ruszkowski , B. B. Nath , Mitchell C. Begelman

Relativistic jets in active galactic nuclei (AGN) convert as much as half of their energy into radiation. To explore the poorly understood processes that are responsible for this conversion, we carry out fully 3D magnetohydrodynamic (MHD)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-28 Rodolfo Barniol Duran , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Dimitrios Giannios

We present measurements of galactic outflow rates from the EAGLE suite of cosmological simulations. We find that gas is removed from the interstellar medium (ISM) of central galaxies with a dimensionless mass loading factor that scales…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-15 Peter D. Mitchell , Joop Schaye , Richard G. Bower , Robert A. Crain

Active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback is postulated as a key mechanism for regulating star formation within galaxies. Studying the physical properties of the outflowing gas from AGN is thus crucial for understanding the co-evolution of…

Feedback from black hole-powered jets has been invoked in many cosmological simulations to regulate star formation and quench galaxies. Despite this, observational evidence of how jets might be able to affect their hosts remains scarce,…

We study the properties of massive, galactic-scale outflows of molecular gas and investigate their impact on galaxy evolution. We present new IRAM PdBI CO(1-0) observations of local ULIRGs and QSO hosts: clear signature of massive and…