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If supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are the energy sources that power quasars and active galactic nuclei, then QSO SDSS 1148+5251, the quasar with the highest redshift (z_QSO=6.43), hosts a supermassive black hole formed within 0.9 Gyr…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Stuart L. Shapiro

Massive black holes (BHs) inhabiting galactic nuclei can be described by two parameters only, i.e. mass and spin, that change through cosmic time in response to accretion and merger events. While most numerical simulations accurately track…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-14 Elia Cenci , Luca Sala , Alessandro Lupi , Pedro R. Capelo , Massimo Dotti

The discovery of supermassive black holes with masses $\gtrsim 10^9 M_\odot$ at redshifts $z\gtrsim 10$ challenges conventional formation scenarios based on baryonic accretion and mergers within the first few hundred million years. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-18 Nicolas Sanchis-Gual , Juan Barranco , Juan Carlos Degollado , Darío Nuñez

We estimate the accretion rates produced when a circumprimary gas disc is pushed into the primary supermassive black hole (SMBH) by the tidal force of the decaying secondary during a SMBH merger. Using the 3D Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-01 Fabrícia A. C. Pereira , Giuseppe Lodato , Irapuan Rodrigues , Márcio E. S. Alves , Daniel J. Price

Large-scale magnetic fields in the nuclear regions of protogalaxies can promote the formation and early growth of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) by direct collapse and magnetically boosted accretion. Turbulence associated with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-06 Mitchell C. Begelman , Joseph Silk

Effects of magnetic coupling (MC) of a rotating black hole (BH) with its surrounding accretion disk are discussed in detail in the following aspects: (i) The mapping relation between the angular coordinate on the BH horizon and the radial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. X. Wang , R. Y. Ma , W. H. Lei , G. Z. Yao

Magnetic fields in an accretion disk around the central black hole can modify the position of the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) radius and produces the difference for the classical Novikov-Thorne radius. We estimated the ISCO…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-04-27 M. Yu. Piotrovich , Yu. N. Gnedin , N. A. Silant'ev , T. M. Natsvlishvili , S. D. Buliga

Accretion in the nuclei of active galaxies may occur chaotically. This can produce accretion discs which are counter-rotating or strongly misaligned with respect to the spin of the central supermassive black hole (SMBH), or the axis of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Chris Nixon , Andrew King , Daniel Price

Gravitational waves carry away both energy and angular momentum as binary black holes inspiral and merge. The relative efficiency with which they are radiated determines whether the final black hole of mass $M_f$ and spin $S_f$ saturates…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Michael Kesden

We consider a stationary axisymmetric force-free degenerate magnetosphere of a rotating Kerr black hole surrounded by a thin Keplerian infinitely-conducting accretion disk. We focus on the closed-field geometry characterize by a direct…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Dmitri A. Uzdensky

We calculate the structure of accretion disc around a rapidly rotating black hole with a super-Eddington accretion rate. The luminosity and height of the disc are reduced by the advection effect. In the case of a large viscosity parameter,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Andrei M. Beloborodov

We have analyzed the evolution of mass of a stationary black hole in the standard FRW cosmological model. The evolution is determined specifically about the time of transition from the earlier matter to the later exotic dark energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Mubasher Jamil

The correlations between the mass of supermassive black holes and properties of their host galaxies are investigated through cosmological simulations. Black holes grow from seeds of 100 solar masses inserted into density peaks present in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Ch. Filloux , F. Durier , J. A. de Freitas Pacheco , J. Silk

We study the evolution of disk accretion during the merger of supermassive black hole binaries in galactic nuclei. In hierarchical galaxy formation models, the most common binaries are likely to arise from minor galactic mergers, and have…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 Philip J. Armitage , Priyamvada Natarajan

In extreme/intermediate-mass-ratio inspirals (E/IMRIs) embedded in dark-matter (DM) spikes, the secondary black hole can accrete collisionless particles from the surrounding halo. We study how the companion's spin controls this process, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-27 Theophanes K. Karydas , Rodrigo Vicente , Gianfranco Bertone

Environment, such as the accretion disk, could modify the signal of the gravitational wave from the astrophysical black hole binaries. In this article, we model the matter field around the intermediate-mass binary black holes by means of an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-13 Qing Yang , Li-Wei Ji , Bin Hu , Zhou-Jian Cao , Rong-Gen Cai

We investigate the conjecture by Sikora, Stawarz & Lasota (2007) that the observed AGN--radio-loudness bimodality can be explained by the morphology-related bimodality of black-hole spin distribution in the centers of galaxies: central…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Marta Volonteri , Marek Sikora , Jean-Pierre Lasota

Luminous quasars powered by accreting supermassive black holes (SMBHs) have been found in the early Universe at $z \gtrsim 7.5$, which set a strong constraint on both the seed black hole mass and the rapid growth of the SMBHs. In this work,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Jiawen Li , Xinwu Cao

Neutrinos are copiously emitted from black hole accretion disks playing a fundamental role in their evolution, as well as in the production of gamma ray bursts and r-process nucleosynthesis. The black hole generates a strong gravitational…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-06-29 O. L. Caballero , T. Zielinski , G. C. McLaughlin , R. Surman

Magnetic fields play a central role in black hole astrophysics, powering relativistic jets and other energetic phenomena. While near-horizon magnetic field is usually assumed to originate from the accretion flow, additional large-scale…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-29 Madina Zhakipova , Arman Tursunov , Saken Toktarbay , Martin Kološ