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We develop and test with cosmological simulations a physically motivated theory for how the interplay between gravity, pressure, cooling, and self-shielding set the redshift--dependent mass scale at which halos can accrete intergalactic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Yookyung Noh , Matthew McQuinn

We employ cosmological hydrodynamical simulations to study the growth of massive black holes (BHs) at high redshifts subject to BH merger recoils from gravitational wave emission. We select the most massive dark matter halo at z=6 from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Debora Sijacki , Volker Springel , Martin G. Haehnelt

There is overwhelming evidence for the presence of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in the centers of most nearby galaxies. The mass estimates for these remnant black holes from the stellar kinematics of local galaxies and the quasar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Priyamvada Natarajan

The paper examines the early growth of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in cosmological hydrodynamic simulations with different BH seeding scenarios. Employing the constrained Gaussian realization, we reconstruct the initial conditions in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-10 Kuan-Wei Huang , Yueying Ni , Yu Feng , Tiziana Di Matteo

We demonstrate that the luminosity function of the recently detected population of star-forming galaxies and the QSO luminosity function at z=3 can be matched with the mass function of dark matter haloes predicted by hierarchical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Martin G. Haehnelt , Priyamvada Natarajan , Martin J. Rees

We investigate the rapid growth phase of supermassive black holes (BHs) within the hydrodynamical cosmological \eagle simulation. This non-linear phase of BH growth occurs within $\sim$$L_{*}$ galaxies, embedded between two regulatory…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-19 Stuart McAlpine , Richard G. Bower , David J. Rosario , Robert A. Crain , Joop Schaye , Tom Theuns

We present high-resolution, three-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations of the fueling of supermassive black holes in elliptical galaxies from a turbulent medium on galactic scales, taking M87* as a typical case. The simulations use a new…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-31 Minghao Guo , James M. Stone , Chang-Goo Kim , Eliot Quataert

Supermassive black hole dynamics during galaxy mergers is crucial in determining the rate of black hole mergers and cosmic black hole growth. As simulations achieve higher resolution, it becomes important to assess whether the black hole…

We investigate the growth of central supermassive black holes in galaxies, aiming to distinguish between gas accretion versus BH merger-driven growth modes. By performing and analysing cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of $(50 ~ {\rm…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-06 Paramita Barai

Black holes across a broad range of masses play a key role in the evolution of galaxies. The initial seeds of black holes formed at $z \sim 30$ and grew over cosmic time by gas accretion and mergers. Using observational data for quasars and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-03 Fabio Pacucci , Abraham Loeb

High-redshift quasars ($z\gtrsim6$), powered by black holes (BHs) with large inferred masses, imply rapid BH growth in the early Universe. The most extreme examples have inferred masses of $\sim \! 10^9\,$M$_\odot$ at $z = 7.5$ and $\sim \!…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-09 Jake S. Bennett , Debora Sijacki , Tiago Costa , Nicolas Laporte , Callum Witten

In the universe's most massive galaxies, kinetic feedback from a central supermassive black hole appears to limit star formation. Abundant circumstantial evidence suggests that accumulation of cold gas near the central black hole strongly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-23 Deovrat Prasad , G. Mark Voit , Brian W. O'shea , Forrest Glines

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

Simulating accretion and feedback from the horizon scale of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) out to galactic scales is challenging because of the vast range of scales involved. Elaborating on H. Cho et al., we describe and test a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-23 Hyerin Cho , Ben S. Prather , Kung-Yi Su , Ramesh Narayan , Priyamvada Natarajan

One of the greatest issues in modelling black hole fuelling is our lack of understanding of the processes by which gas loses angular momentum and falls from galactic scales down to the nuclear region where an accretion disc forms,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-12-24 Juan Manuel Carmona-Loaiza , Monica Colpi , Massimo Dotti , Riccardo Valdarnini

Recent observations with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have suggested the existence of over-massive black holes (OMBHs) in high-redshift galaxies. In this paper, we propose a new mechanism for the formation of OMBHs, based on the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-03 Hidenobu Yajima

Simulations predict that galaxies grow primarily through the accretion of gas that has not gone through an accretion shock near the virial radius and that this cold gas flows towards the central galaxy along dense filaments and streams.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Freeke van de Voort , Joop Schaye , Gabriel Altay , Tom Theuns

The co-evolution of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and their host galaxies remains one of the central open questions in cosmology, rooted in the coupling between accretion, feedback, and the multi-scale physics that links the event…

Context. The Bondi spherical accretion solution has been used to model accretion onto compact objects in a variety of situations, from interpretation of observations to subgrid models in cosmological simulations. Aims. We aim to investigate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-03 Razieh Ranjbar , Héctor R. Olivares-Sánchez

The Sloan Digital Sky survey detected luminous quasars at very high redshift, z>6. Follow-up observations indicated that at least some of these quasars are powered by supermassive black holes (SMBHs) with masses in excess of billion solar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Volonteri , M. J. Rees