English
Related papers

Related papers: Black Hole Demography: From scaling relations to m…

200 papers

This paper is the fourth in a series presenting (galaxy morphology, and thus galaxy formation)-dependent black hole mass, $M_{\rm BH}$, scaling relations. We have used a sample of 119 galaxies with directly-measured $M_{\rm BH}$ and host…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-08 Nandini Sahu , Alister W. Graham , Benjamin L. Davis

Recent studies have revealed a strong relation between sample-averaged black-hole (BH) accretion rate (BHAR) and star formation rate (SFR) among bulge-dominated galaxies, i.e., "lockstep" BH-bulge growth, in the distant universe. This…

We use a semianalytic model of galaxy formation to compare the predictions of two quenching scenarios: halo quenching and black-hole (BH) quenching. After calibrating both models so that they fit the mass function of galaxies, BH quenching…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-27 Ioanna Koutsouridou , Andrea Cattaneo

The dependence of the parameters of the evolution of scalarly charged Black Holes (BHs) in the early Universe on the parameters of field-theoretic theories of interaction, the influence of the geometric factor of the structure of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-11 Yu. G. Ignat'ev

Recent discoveries of black hole (BH) candidates in Galactic and extragalactic globular clusters (GCs) have ignited interest in understanding how BHs dynamically evolve in a GC and the number of BHs ($N_{\rm{BH}}$) that may still be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 Newlin C. Weatherford , Sourav Chatterjee , Carl L. Rodriguez , Frederic A. Rasio

We investigate the halo occupation distribution (HOD) of black holes within a hydrodynamic cosmological simulation that directly follows black hole growth. Similar to the HOD of galaxies/subhalos, we find that the black hole occupation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Colin DeGraf , Matthew Oborski , Tiziana Di Matteo , Suchetana Chatterjee , Daisuke Nagai , Zheng Zheng , Jonathan Richardson

Understanding the growth of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) requires observational constraints on how their angular momentum (or spin) varies with mass, since the relative importance of coherent accretion, chaotic accretion, and mergers…

We present a new relationship between central black hole (BH) mass and host galaxy stellar bulge mass extending to the lowest BH masses known in dwarf galaxies ($M_{\rm BH} \lesssim 10^{5} M_{\odot}$; $M_{\star} \sim 10^{9} M_{\odot}$). We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Zachary Schutte , Amy Reines , Jenny Greene

Some basic features of black-hole statistical mechanics are investigated, assuming that black holes respect the principles of quantum mechanics. Care is needed in defining an entropy S_bh corresponding to the number of microstates of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-11-20 Steven B. Giddings

Observations in the local universe show a tight correlation between the masses of supermassive black holes (SMBHs; $M_{\rm BH}$) and host-galaxy bulges ($M_{\rm bulge}$), suggesting a strong connection between SMBH and bulge growth.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-13 Guang Yang , W. N. Brandt , D. M. Alexander , C. -T. J. Chen , Q. Ni , F. Vito , F. -F. Zhu

We examine the relationship between the mass of present-day central supermassive black holes (SMBHs, $M_{\rm BH}$), and the stellar mass ($M_{\star}$) and halo mass ($M_{200}$) of their host galaxies in the EAGLE simulation, and find that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-09 Ryan J. Roberts , Jonathan J. Davies , Robert A. Crain

We analyse the demographics of black holes (BHs) in the large-volume cosmological hydrodynamical simulation Horizon-AGN. This simulation statistically models how much gas is accreted onto BHs, traces the energy deposited into their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-07-27 Marta Volonteri , Yohan Dubois , Christophe Pichon , Julien Devriendt

We investigate the coupled formation and evolution of galaxies and their embedded supermassive black holes using state-of-the-art hydrodynamic simulations of cosmological structure formation. For the first time, we self-consistently follow…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Tiziana Di Matteo , Joerg Colberg , Volker Springel , Lars Hernquist , Debora Sijacki

We study the scaling relation between the black hole and stellar mass ($M_\bullet-M_*$), diagnosing the residual $\Delta \log(M_\bullet/M_\odot)$ ($\Delta$) in this relation to understand the coevolution of the galaxy and black hole (BH) in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-29 Wenlin Ma , Weiguang Cui , Romeel Davé , Daniel Anglés-Alcázar , Hong Guo

Sizeable number of stellar-mass black holes (BHs) in globular clusters (GCs) can strongly influence the dynamical evolution and observational properties of their host cluster. Using results from a large set of numerical simulations, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-18 Abbas Askar , Mirek Giersz , Manuel Arca Sedda , Ammar Askar , Mario Pasquato , Agostino Leveque

Astrophysical black holes (BHs) have two fundamental properties: mass and spin. While the mass-evolution of BHs has been extensively studied, much less work has been done on predicting the distribution of BH spins. In this paper we present…

The realization of fundamental relations between supermassive black holes and their host galaxies would have profound implications in astrophysics. To add further context to studies of their co-evolution, an investigation is carried out to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-20 John Silverman , Junyao Li , Xuheng Ding

We present a mid-IR investigation of the scaling relations between supermassive black hole masses (MBH) and the structural parameters of the host spheroids in local galaxies. The work is based on two-dimensional bulge-disk decompositions of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 E. Sani , A. Marconi , L. K. Hunt , G. Risaliti

There is increasing evidence for multiple binary black hole~(BBH) subpopulations in the cumulative gravitational wave catalog by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration. The astrophysical interpretation of this complex underlying population is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-19 Anarya Ray , Shirsha Mukherjee , Michael Zevin , Vicky Kalogera

Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are commonly found at the centers of their host galaxies, but their formation still remains an open question. In light of the tight correlation between the BH mass and the velocity dispersions of the bulge…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 Zhen Pan , Huan Yang