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We study the correlations between Supermassive Black Holes (BH) and their host galaxies, using a sample of 83 BH masses collected from the most recent and reliable spatially resolved estimates available from the literature. We confirm the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-25 Stefano de Nicola , Alessandro Marconi , Giuseppe Longo

Motivated by observational searches for massive black hole (MBH) pairs at kiloparsec separations we develop a semi-analytic model to describe their orbital evolution under the influence of stellar and gaseous dynamical friction (DF). The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-05 Kunyang Li , Tamara Bogdanovic , David R. Ballantyne

The recently confirmed correlation between the mass of SMBH and bulges of galaxies (and their central velocity dispersion), suggest a common formation scenario for galaxies and their central black holes. Common fueling can be invoked…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Combes

We have investigated the redshift evolution of the relationship between supermassive black hole (SMBH) mass and host bulge mass using a semi-analytical galaxy formation model $\nu^2$GC. Our model reproduces the relation in the local…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-18 Tatsuki Shimizu , Taira Oogi , Takashi Okamoto , Masahiro Nagashima , Motohiro Enoki

The deep connection between galaxies and their supermassive black holes is central to modern astrophysics and cosmology. The observed correlation between galaxy and black hole mass is usually attributed to the contribution of major mergers…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-19 B. D. Simmons , R. J. Smethurst , C. Lintott

Supermassive black holes (BHs) appear to be ubiquitous at the center of all galaxies which have been observed at high enough sensitivities and resolution with the Hubble Space Telescope. Their masses are found to be tightly linked with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Francesco Shankar

We argue that the observed correlations between central black holes masses M_{BH} and galactic bulge velocity dispersions \sigma_e in the form M_{BH}\propto\sigma_e^4 may witness on the pregalactic origin of massive black holes. Primordial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 V. I. Dokuchaev , Yu. N. Eroshenko

The dense environment of globular clusters (GCs) can facilitate the formation of binary black holes (BBHs), some of which can merge with gravitational waves (GW) within the age of the Universe. We have performed a survey of Monte-Carlo…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-22 Jongsuk Hong , Enrico Vesperini , Abbas Askar , Mirek Giersz , Magdalena Szkudlarek , Tomasz Bulik

Evidence shows that massive black holes reside in most local galaxies. Studies have also established a number of relations between the MBH mass and properties of the host galaxy such as bulge mass and velocity dispersion. These results…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Marta Volonteri

We study the evolution of black holes (BHs) on the M_BH-sigma and M_BH-M_bulge planes as a function of time in disk galaxies undergoing mergers. We begin the simulations with the progenitor black hole masses being initially below (Delta log…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Peter H. Johansson , Andreas Burkert , Thorsten Naab

Massive black holes are nowadays believed to reside in most local galaxies. Studies have also established a number of relations between the MBH mass and properties of the host galaxy such as bulge mass and velocity dispersion. These results…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Marta Volonteri

We find evidence that the mass MBH of central supermassive black holes (SMBHs) correlates with the velocity dispersion sigma_GC of globular cluster systems of their host galaxies. This extends the well-known MBH - sigma_sph relation between…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Raphael Sadoun , Jacques Colin

We review the observed demographics and inferred evolution of supermassive black holes (BHs) found by dynamical modeling of spatially resolved kinematics. Most influential was the discovery of a tight correlation between BH mass and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 John Kormendy , Luis C. Ho

We study the observational constraints on the cosmic evolution of the relationships between the massive black hole (MBH) mass (M_bh) and the stellar mass (M^*_sph; or velocity dispersion \sigma) of the host galaxy/spheroid. Assuming that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Xiaoxia Zhang , Youjun Lu , Qingjuan Yu

We explore the relation between the total globular cluster population in a galaxy (N_GC) and the the mass of its central black hole (M_BH). Using a sample of 33 galaxies, twice as large as the original sample discussed by Burkert & Tremaine…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Gretchen L. H. Harris , William E. Harris

The growth of the supermassive black holes (BHs) that reside at the centres of most galaxies is intertwined with the physical processes that drive the formation of the galaxies themselves. The evolution of the relations between the mass of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 C. M. Booth , Joop Schaye

We propose a scenario for mass evolution of massive black holes (MBH) in galactic nuclei, to explain both the mass correlation of the supermassive black hole (SMBH) with the bulge and the down-sizing behavior of the active galactic nuclei.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-31 Hajime Inoue

Empirical evidence for both stellar mass black holes M_bh<10^2 M_sun) and supermassive black holes (SMBHs, M_bh>10^5 M_sun) is well established. Moreover, every galaxy with a bulge appears to host a SMBH, whose mass is correlated with the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 Margarita Safonova , Prajval Shastri

Understanding the formation of the supermassive black holes (SMBHs) present in the centers of galaxies is a crucial topic in modern astrophysics. Observations have detected the SMBHs with mass $M$ of $10^{9}\, \rm M_\odot$ in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-02 Chi-Hong Lin , Ke-Jung Chen , Chorng-Yuan Hwang

We consider the cosmological model in which a part of the Universe \Omega_h\sim 10^-5 is in the form of primordial black holes with mass \sim 10^5M_\odot. These primordial black holes would be centers for growing protogalaxies which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 V. I. Dokuchaev , Yu. N. Eroshenko