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Jet feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) harboured by brightest cluster galaxies is expected to play a fundamental role in regulating cooling in the intracluster medium (ICM). While observations and theory suggest energy within jet…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-17 Martin A. Bourne , Debora Sijacki , Ewald Puchwein

Radiation, winds and jets from the active nucleus of a massive galaxy can interact with its interstellar medium leading to ejection or heating of the gas. This can terminate star formation in the galaxy and stifle accretion onto the black…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 A. C. Fabian

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

Gas accretion by a galaxy's central super massive black hole (SMBH) and the resultant energetic feedback by the accreting active galactic nucleus (AGN) on the gas in and around a galaxy, are two tightly intertwined but competing processes…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-05 Tom Oosterloo , Raffaella Morganti , Suma Murthy

In many observed galaxy clusters, jets launched by the accretion process on to supermassive black holes, inflate large-scale cavities filled with energetic, relativistic plasma. This process is thought to be responsible for regulating…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-02 Martin A. Bourne , Debora Sijacki

While there is overwhelming observational evidence of AGN-driven jets in galaxy clusters and groups, if and how the jet energy is delivered to the ambient medium remains unanswered. Here we perform very high resolution AGN jet simulations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-16 Martin A. Bourne , Debora Sijacki

Supermassive black holes (BH) are powerful sources of energy that are already in place at very early epochs of the Universe (by z=6). Using hydrodynamical simulations of the formation of a massive M_vir=5 10^11 M_sun halo by z=6 (the most…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Yohan Dubois , Christophe Pichon , Julien Devriendt , Joseph Silk , Martin Haehnelt , Taysun Kimm , Adrianne Slyz

Winds and jets are symbiotic when the accretion rate is low, according to black hole accretion theory. Both components are potentially important for active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback, but previous works typically include only jets with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-01 Minhang Guo , Suoqing Ji , Feng Yuan , Bocheng Zhu

Accurate modeling of active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback, especially due to relativistic jets, is crucial for understanding the cool-core problem in galaxy clusters. We present a new subgrid method to model accretion onto and feedback…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-24 Ying-He Celeste Lü , Paul M. Ricker

We propose a scenario where during galaxy formation an active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback mechanism starts before the formation of a supermassive black hole (SMBH). The supermassive star (SMS) progenitor of the SMBH accretes mass as it…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-08 Ealeal Bear , Noam Soker

How mechanical AGN feedback couples to multiphase condensation across scales remains a problem in galaxy groups and clusters. It is unclear how jets reshape the chaotic cold accretion (CCA) cycle and regulate black-hole fueling.…

Feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) is believed to prevent catastrophic cooling in galaxy clusters. However, how the feedback energy is transformed into heat, and how the AGN jets heat the intracluster medium (ICM) isotropically,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-05 H. -Y. K. Yang , C. S. Reynolds

Simulations of feedback by jets from active galactic nuclei (AGN) in the past mostly focused on the interaction at large scales as the circumgalactic medium or intra-cluster medium for clusters of galaxies. Only in recent years, simulations…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-07-10 V. Gaibler

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are powered by the accretion of disks of gas onto supermassive black holes (SMBHs). Stars and stellar remnants orbiting the SMBH in the nuclear star cluster (NSC) will interact with the AGN disk. Orbiters…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-02 Gaia Fabj , Syeda S. Nasim , Freddy Caban , K. E. Saavik Ford , Barry McKernan , Jillian M. Bellovary

We study the feedback from an AGN on stellar formation within its host galaxy, mainly using one high resolution numerical simulation of the jet propagation within the interstellar medium of an early-type galaxy. In particular, we show that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 C. Tortora , V. Antonuccio-Delogu , S. Kaviraj , J. Silk , A. D. Romeo , U. Becciani

This is the fourth paper of our series investigating the effects of active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback in the evolution of an elliptical galaxy using the {\it MACER} framework. While previous works considered only AGN radiation and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-01 Minhang Guo , Feng Yuan , Suoqing Ji , Bocheng Zhu

The co-evolution between supermassive black holes and their environment is most directly traced by the hot atmospheres of dark matter halos. Cooling of the hot atmosphere supplies the central regions with fresh gas, igniting active galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-29 Dominique Eckert , Massimo Gaspari , Fabio Gastaldello , Amandine M. C. Le Brun , Ewan O'Sullivan

We study the interaction of feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) and a multi-phase interstellar medium (ISM), in simulations including explicit stellar feedback, multi-phase cooling, accretion-disk winds, and Compton heating. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-09 Philip F. Hopkins , Paul Torrey , Claude-Andre Faucher-Giguere , Eliot Quataert , Norman Murray

We use hydrodynamical simulations to study the color transformations induced by star formation and active galactic nuclei (AGN) during major mergers of spiral galaxies. Our modeling accounts for radiative cooling, star formation, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Volker Springel , Tiziana Di Matteo , Lars Hernquist

We implement a black hole spin evolution and jet feedback model into SWIFT, a smoothed particle hydrodynamics code. The jet power is determined self-consistently assuming Bondi accretion, using a realistic, spin-dependant efficiency. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-24 Filip Huško , Cedric G. Lacey , Joop Schaye , Matthieu Schaller , Folkert S. J. Nobels