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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

Recent observations indicate that the mass of Supermassive Black Holes (SMBHs) correlate differently with different galaxy stellar components. Comparing such observations with the results of "ab initio" galaxy formation models can provide…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-26 Nicola Menci , Fabrizio Fiore , Angela Bongiorno , Alessandra Lamastra

Recent observations of the black hole (BH) - bulge scaling relations usually report positive redshift evolution, with higher redshift galaxies harboring more massive BHs than expected from the local relations. All of these studies focus on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 Yue Shen , Brandon C. Kelly

The growth of black holes and the formation and evolution of galaxies appear to be linked at such a fundamental level that we think of the two as `co-evolving.' Recent observations show that this co-evolution may be complex and the result…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-14 Kevin Schawinski

We address the correlations of black hole (BH) mass with four different host-galaxy properties from eleven existing data sets. To guide theoretical understanding, we first try to quantify the tightness of the intrinsic correlations. Given…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Gregory S. Novak , S. M. Faber , Avishai Dekel

The black hole mass function of supermassive black holes describes the evolution of the distribution of black hole mass. It is one of the primary empirical tools available for mapping the growth of supermassive black holes and for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Brandon C. Kelly , Andrea Merloni

Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are tiny in comparison to the galaxies they inhabit, yet they manage to influence and coevolve along with their hosts. Evidence of this mutual development is observed in the structure and dynamics of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-12 Benjamin L. Davis , Zehao Jin

Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are nowadays believed to reside in most local galaxies, and the available data show an empirical correlation between bulge luminosity - or stellar velocity dispersion - and black hole mass, suggesting a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Marta Volonteri

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

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

Possible connections between central black-hole (BH) growth and host-galaxy compactness have been found observationally, which may provide insight into BH-galaxy coevolution: compact galaxies might have large amounts of gas in their centers…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-25 Q. Ni , G. Yang , W. N. Brandt , D. M. Alexander , C. -T. J. Chen , B. Luo , F. Vito , Y. Q. Xue

We investigate the black hole (BH) scaling relation in galaxies using a model in which the galaxy halo and central BH are a self-gravitating sphere of dark matter (DM) with an isotropic, adiabatic equation of state. The equipotential where…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Curtis J. Saxton , Roberto Soria , Kinwah Wu

Massive black holes (BHs) inhabit local galaxies, including the Milky Way and some dwarf galaxies. BH formation, occurring at early cosmic times, must account for the properties of BHs in today's galaxies, notably why some galaxies host a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-28 Melanie Habouzit , Marta Volonteri , Yohan Dubois

The purpose of this contribution is to review the current status of black hole demographics in light of recent advances in the study of high redshift QSOs (section 2), local AGNs (section 3) and local quiescent galaxies (section 4). I will…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 Laura Ferrarese

Observations of massive galaxies at low redshift have revealed approximately linear scaling relations between the mass of a supermassive black hole (SMBH) and properties of its host galaxy. How these scaling relations evolve with redshift…

The presence of strong correlations between super-massive black hole (SMBH) masses and galaxy properties like stellar mass have been well-established in the local Universe, but how these scaling relations evolve with cosmic time is yet to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-29 Matías Bravo , Claudia del P. Lagos , Katy L. Proctor , Ángel Chandro-Gómez , Chris Power

Strong scaling relations between host galaxy properties (such as stellar mass, bulge mass, luminosity, effective radius etc) and their nuclear supermassive black hole's mass point towards a close co-evolution. In this work, we first review…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-02 Christopher Marsden , Francesco Shankar , Michele Ginolfi , Kastytis Zubovas

The energy and momentum deposited by the radiation from accretion onto the supermassive black holes (BHs) that reside at the centres of virtually all galaxies can halt or even reverse gas inflow, providing a natural mechanism for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 C. M. Booth , Joop Schaye

We append two additional black hole (BH) accretion models, namely viscous disc and gravitational torque-driven accretion, into the Numerical Investigation of a Hundred Astrophysical Objects (NIHAO) project of galaxy simulations. We show…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-09 Nadine H. Soliman , Andrea V. Macciò , Marvin Blank

I investigate whether useful constraints on the evolution of the relationship between galaxy mass and black hole (BH) mass can be obtained from recent measurements of galaxy stellar mass functions and QSO bolometric luminosity functions at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Rachel S. Somerville