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Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are tightly correlated with their hosts but the origin of such connection remains elusive. To explore the cosmic build-up of this scaling relation, we present an empirically-motivated model that tracks…

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

Giant elliptical galaxies, believed to be built from the merger of lesser galaxies, are known to house a massive black hole at their center rather than a compact star cluster. If low- and intermediate-mass galaxies do indeed partake in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Kenji Bekki , Alister W. Graham

Globular clusters could harbor massive central black holes (BHs), just as galaxies do. So far, no unambiguous detection of a massive BH has been reported for any globular cluster. However, the dense core-collapsed cluster M15 seems to be a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Roeland P. van der Marel

Resent observations and theoretical interpretations suggest that IMBHs (intermediate-mass black hole) are formed in the centers of young and compact star clusters born close to the center of their parent galaxy. Such a star cluster would…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Tatsushi Matsubayashi , Junichiro Makino , Toshikazu Ebisuzaki

Stars often reside in binary configurations. The nuclear star cluster surrounding the supermassive black hole (SMBH) in the Galactic Center (GC) is expected to include a binary population. In this dense environment, a binary frequently…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-02 Sanaea C. Rose , Smadar Naoz , Abhimat K. Gautam , Andrea M. Ghez , Tuan Do , Devin Chu , Eric Becklin

Evidence has been mounting for the existence of black holes with masses from 10^2 to 10^4 M_Solar associated with stellar clusters. Such intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) will encounter other black holes in the dense cores of these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kayhan Gultekin , M. Coleman Miller , Douglas P. Hamilton

[Abridged] We investigate the nature of the relations between black hole (BH) mass ($M_{\rm BH}$) and the central velocity dispersion ($\sigma$) and, for core-S\'ersic galaxies, the size of the depleted core ($R_{\rm b}$). Our sample of 144…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-24 Bililign T. Dullo , Armando Gil de Paz , Johan H. Knapen

The supermassive black hole (SMBH), Sgr A*, at the Galactic Center is surrounded by a molecular circumnuclear disk (CND) lying between 1.5-4 pc radii. The irregular and clumpy structures of the CND, suggest dynamical evolution and episodic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 Hauyu Baobab Liu , Pei-Ying Hsieh , Paul T. P. Ho , Yu-Nung Su , Melvyn Wright , Ai-Lei Sun , Young Chol Minh

There is a growing array of supermassive black hole and nuclear star cluster scaling relations with their host spheroid, including a bent (black hole mass)-(host spheroid mass) M_bh-M_sph relation and different (massive compact object…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-23 Alister W. Graham

In this Letter, we present five analytical models in closed forms, each representing a supermassive black hole (SMBH) located at the center of a galaxy surrounded by dark matter (DM) halo. The density profile of the halo vanishes inside…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-21 Zibo Shen , Anzhong Wang , Yungui Gong , Shaoyu Yin

We present direct N-body simulations, carried out with Nbody6++GPU, of young and compact low metallicity star clusters with $1.1\times 10^5$ stars, a velocity dispersion of $\sim$ 10 $\mathrm{km\,s^{-1}}$, a half mass radius $R_h=0.6$ pc,…

Scalar-field dark matter (SFDM) halos exhibit a core-envelope structure with soliton-like cores and CDM-like envelopes. Simulations without self-interaction (free-field case) report a core-halo mass relation $M_c\propto M_{h}^{\beta}$, with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-08 Luis E. Padilla , Tanja Rindler-Daller , Paul R. Shapiro , Tonatiuh Matos , J. Alberto Vázquez

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

A galaxy halo may contain a large number of intermediate mass black holes (IMBHs) with masses in the range of 10^{2-6} solar mass. We propose to directly detect these IMBHs by observing multiply imaged QSO-galaxy or galaxy-galaxy strong…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-08 Kaiki Taro Inoue , Valery Rashkov , Joseph Silk , Piero Madau

In the CDM cosmological framework structures grow from merging with smaller structures. Merging should have observable effects on galaxies including destroying disks and creating spheroids. This proceeding aims to give a brief overview of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-01-31 Ariyeh H. Maller

One of the main possible way of creating the supermassive black hole (SMBH) is a so call hierarchical merging scenario. Central SMBHs at the final phase of interacting and coalescing host-galaxies are observed as SMBH binary (SMBHB)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-25 Margarita Sobolenko , Peter Berczik , Rainer Spurzem

Nearly every massive galaxy harbors a supermassive black hole (SMBH) in its nucleus. SMBH masses are millions to billions $M_{\odot}$, and they correlate with properties of spheroids of their host galaxies. While the SMBH growth channels,…

We present the results of detailed N-body simulations regarding the interaction of four massive globular clusters in the central region of a triaxial galaxy. The systems undergo a full merging event, producing a sort of 'Super Star Cluster'…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Miocchi , R. Capuzzo Dolcetta , P. Di Matteo

We present results from a study to determine whether relations, established in the local Universe, between the mass of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and their host galaxies are in place at higher redshifts. We establish a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Malte Schramm , John D. Silverman