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Active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback is widely viewed as the most promising solution to the long-standing cooling flow problem in galaxy clusters, yet previous models prescribe jet properties inconsistent with accretion physics. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-15 Aoyun He , Feng Yuan , Suoqing Ji , Minhang Guo , Yuan Li , Haiguang Xu , Ming Sun , Haojie Xia , Yuanyuan Zhao

The interplay between cosmic gas accretion on to galaxies and galaxy mergers drives the observed morphological diversity of galaxies. By comparing the state-of-the-art hydrodynamical cosmological simulations Horizon-AGN and Horizon-noAGN,…

Supermassive black hole accretion and feedback play central role in the evolution of galaxies, groups, and clusters. I review how AGN feedback is tightly coupled with the formation of multiphase gas and the newly probed chaotic cold…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-24 M. Gaspari

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) feedback plays a significant role in many aspects of galaxy formation and evolution and has become a key ingredient in cosmological simulations. However, the subgrid models of AGN feedback in cosmological…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-29 Bocheng Zhu , Volker Springel , Feng Yuan

Star formation in galaxies is regulated by the interplay of a range of processes that shape the multiphase gas in the interstellar and circumgalactic media. Using the CAMELS suite of cosmological simulations, we study the effects of varying…

The interplay between radiative cooling of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) and feedback heating governs the evolution of the universe's most massive galaxies. This paper presents simulations of feedback processes in massive galaxies showing…

The energy released by Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) in the form of radiation, winds, or radio plasma jets, is known to impact on the surrounding interstellar medium. The result of these processes, known as AGN (negative) feedback, is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-15 Raffaella Morganti

Feedback heating from AGN in massive galaxies and galaxy clusters can be thought of as a naturally occurring control system which plays a significant role in regulating both star formation rates and the X-ray luminosity of the surrounding…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-04 Edward C. D. Pope

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

We summarize what large surveys of the contemporary universe have taught us about the physics and phenomenology of the processes that link the formation and evolution of galaxies and their central supermassive black holes. We present a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Timothy Heckman , Philip Best

We employ cosmological hydrodynamical simulations to investigate the effects of AGN feedback on the formation of massive galaxies with present-day stellar masses of $M_{stel} = 8.8 \times 10^{10} - 6.0 \times 10^{11} M_{sun}$. Using…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Ena Choi , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Thorsten Naab , Ludwig Oser , Benjamin P. Moster

Dense gas in the centre of galaxies feeds massive black holes, but can also become a source of obscuration and limit our ability to find faint Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). We use a high resolution cosmological radiative hydrodynamics…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-22 Maxime Trebitsch , Marta Volonteri , Yohan Dubois

We study the effect of AGN mechanical and radiation feedback on the formation of bulge dominated galaxies via mergers of disc galaxies. The merging galaxies have mass-ratios of 1:1 to 6:1 and include pre-existing hot gaseous halos to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Ena Choi , Thorsten Naab , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Peter H. Johansson , Benjamin P. Moster

Contrary to the standard lore, there is mounting observational evidence that feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) may also play a role at the low-mass end of the galaxy population. We investigate this using the cosmological simulation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-22 Sophie Koudmani , Nicholas A. Henden , Debora Sijacki

The passively evolving stellar population in elliptical galaxies (Es) provides a continuous source of fuel for accretion on the central supermassive black hole (SMBH), which is 1) extended over the entire galaxy life (but declining with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 L. Ciotti

Large extragalactic surveys allow us to trace, in a statistical sense, how supermassive black holes, their host galaxies, and their dark matter halos evolve together over cosmic time, and so explore the consequences of AGN feedback on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 Ryan C. Hickox

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 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…

Simulations of galaxy growth need to invoke strong negative feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) to suppress the formation of stars and thus prevent the over-production of very massive systems. While some observations provide evidence…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 Peter-Christian Zinn , Enno Middelberg , Ray P. Norris , Ralf-Jürgen Dettmar

Feedback from super-massive black holes (SMBHs) is thought to play a key role in regulating the growth of host galaxies. Cosmological and galaxy formation simulations using smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH), which usually use a fixed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-09 Martin A. Bourne , Kastytis Zubovas , Sergei Nayakshin