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We study the evolution of gravitationally recoiled supermassive black holes (BHs) in massive gas-rich galaxies by means of high-resolution hydrodynamical simulations. We find that the presence of a massive gaseous disc allows recoiled BHs…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Debora Sijacki , Volker Springel , Martin Haehnelt

[Abridged] Over the past two decades observations and theoretical simulations have established a global frame-work of galaxy formation and evolution in the young Universe. Galaxies formed as baryonic gas cooled at the centres of collapsing…

Force balance considerations put a limit on the rate of AGN radiation momentum output, $L/c$, capable of driving galactic superwinds and reproducing the observed $\mbh -\sigma $ relation between black hole mass and spheroid velocity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Joe Silk , Adi Nusser

We present a simple scenario where the formation of galactic bulges was regulated by the dark halo gravity and regulated the growth of the central supermassive black hole. Assuming the angular momentum is low, we suggest that bulges form in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Bing-Xiao Xu , Xue-Bing Wu , HongSheng Zhao

The condensation of gas and stars in the inner regions of dark matter halos leads to a more concentrated dark matter distribution. While this effect is based on simple gravitational physics, the question of its validity in hierarchical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-31 Oleg Y. Gnedin , Daniel Ceverino , Nickolay Y. Gnedin , Anatoly A. Klypin , Andrey V. Kravtsov , Robyn Levine , Daisuke Nagai , Gustavo Yepes

The growth of black holes (BHs) in disk galaxies lacking classical bulges, which implies an absence of significant mergers, appears to be driven by secular processes. Short bars of sub-kiloparsec radius have been hypothesized to be an…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-02 Min Du , Victor P. Debattista , Juntai Shen , Luis C. Ho , Peter Erwin

We study the connection between the large-scale dynamics and the gas fueling toward a central black hole via the analysis of a Milky Way-like simulation at sub-parsec resolution. This allows us to follow a set of processes at various scales…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Eric Emsellem , Florent Renaud , Frédéric Bournaud , Bruce Elmegreen , Françoise Combes , Jared Gabor

A live halo plays an active role in the formation and evolution of bars by participating in the angular momentum redistribution which drives the dynamical evolution. Angular momentum is emitted mainly by near-resonant material in the bar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 E. Athanassoula

It is assumed that a galaxy starts as a dark halo of a few million Jeans clusters (JCs), each of which consists of nearly a trillion micro brown dwarfs, MACHOs of Earth mass. JCs in the galaxy center heat up their MACHOs by tidal forces,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen

We use the hydrodynamic, cosmological EAGLE simulations to investigate how hot gas in haloes condenses to form and grow galaxies. We select haloes from the simulations that are actively cooling and study the temperature, distribution, and…

We study the interplay between galaxy evolution and central black-hole (BH) growth using the {NewHorizon} cosmological simulation. BH growth is slow when the dark-matter halo is below a golden mass of $M_{\rm v} \sim 10^{12} \rm M_\odot$,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-02 Sharon Lapiner , Avishai Dekel , Yohan Dubois

Star formation in most galaxies requires cosmic gas accretion because the gas consumption time is short compared to the Hubble time. This accretion presumably comes from a combination of infalling satellite debris, cold flows, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Bruce G. Elmegreen , Curtis Struck , Deidre A. Hunter

We investigate the impact of gas accretion in streams on the evolution of disc galaxies, using magneto-hydrodynamic simulations including advection and anisotropic diffusion of cosmic rays generated by supernovae as the only source of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-10-13 Nicolas Peschken , Michał Hanasz , Thorsten Naab , Dominik Wóltański , Artur Gawryszczak

We describe a mechanism by which supermassive black holes can form directly in the nuclei of protogalaxies, without the need for seed black holes left over from early star formation. Self-gravitating gas in dark matter halos can lose…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Mitchell C. Begelman , Marta Volonteri , Martin J. Rees

Giant star-formation clumps in dwarf irregular galaxies can have masses exceeding a few percent of the galaxy mass enclosed inside their orbital radii. They can produce sufficient torques on dark matter halo particles, halo stars, and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Bruce G. Elmegreen , Hongxin Zhang , Deidre Hunter

We study the angular-momentum (AM) buildup in high-$z$ massive galaxies using high-resolution cosmological simulations. The AM originates in co-planar streams of cold gas and merging galaxies tracing cosmic-web filaments, and it undergoes…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Mark Danovich , Avishai Dekel , Oliver Hahn , Daniel Ceverino , Joel Primack

Stars in galaxies form from the cold rotationally supported gaseous disks that settle at the center of dark matter halos. In the simplest models, such angular momentum is acquired early on at the time of collapse of the halo and preserved…

The hierarchical build-up of galactic bulges should lead to the build-up of present-day supermassive black holes by a mixture of gas accretion and merging of supermassive black holes. The tight relation between black hole mass and stellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-23 Martin G. Haehnelt

[ABRIDGED] We study supermassive black hole binary mergers driven by angular momentum loss to small-scale gas discs. Such binaries form after major galaxy mergers, but their fate is unclear since hardening through stellar scattering becomes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-08 J. Cuadra , P. J. Armitage , R. D. Alexander , M. C. Begelman

We propose the formation of massive pristine dark-matter (DM) halos with masses of $\sim 10^8~M_\odot$, due to the dynamical effects of frequent mergers in rare regions of the Universe with high baryonic streaming velocity relative to DM.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-18 Kohei Inayoshi , Miao Li , Zoltan Haiman