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We investigate the abundance of Super-Massive Black Hole (SMBH) seeds in primordial galaxy halos. We explore the assumption that dark matter halos outgrowing a critical halo mass M_c have some probability p of having spawned a SMBH seed.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-03 Johannes Buchner , Ezequiel Treister , Franz E. Bauer , Lia F. Sartori , Kevin Schawinski

Recent observations by Ferrarese et al. (2006) and Wehner et al. (2006) reveal that a majority of galaxies contain a central massive object (CMO), either a supermassive black hole (SMBH) or a compact stellar nucleus, regardless of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Yuexing Li , Zoltán Haiman , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low

We present Trinity, a flexible empirical model that self-consistently infers the statistical connection between dark matter haloes, galaxies, and supermassive black holes (SMBHs). Trinity is constrained by galaxy observables from $0<z<10$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-26 Haowen Zhang , Peter Behroozi , Marta Volonteri , Joseph Silk , Xiaohui Fan , Philip F. Hopkins , Jinyi Yang , James Aird

Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) have been found to be ubiquitous in the nuclei of early-type galaxies and of bulges of spirals. There are evidences of a tight correlation between the SMBH masses, the velocity dispersions of stars in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-23 Gianfranco De Zotti

The strongest and most universal scaling relation between a supermassive black hole and its host galaxy is known as the $M_\bullet-\sigma$ relation, where $M_\bullet$ is the mass of the central black hole and $\sigma$ is the stellar…

It has been firmly established that there exists a tight correlation between the central black hole mass and velocity dispersion (or luminosity) of elliptical galaxies, ``pseudobulges'' and bulges of galaxies, although the nature of this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-01 X. -Z. Zheng

We combine 10 high resolution resimulations of cluster--sized dark haloes with semi--analytic galaxy formation modelling in order to compare the number density and velocity dispersion profiles of cluster galaxies with those of dark matter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Liang Gao , Gabriella De Lucia , Simon D. M. White , Adrian Jenkins

Scaling relations between supermassive black hole mass, M_BH, and host galaxy properties are a powerful instrument for studying their coevolution. A complete picture involving all of the black hole scaling relations, in which each relation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Giulia Savorgnan , Alister W. Graham , Alessandro Marconi , Eleonora Sani , Leslie K. Hunt , Marina Vika , Simon P. Driver

In the last decades several correlations between the mass of the central supermassive black hole (BH) and properties of the host galaxy - such as bulge luminosity and mass, central stellar velocity dispersion, S\'ersic index, spiral pitch…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-24 Gerold Busch

We present evidence for a strong correlation between the concentration of bulges and the mass of their central supermassive black hole (M_bh) -- more concentrated bulges have more massive black holes. Using C_{r_e}(1/3) from Trujillo,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Alister W. Graham , Peter Erwin , Nicola Caon , Ignacio Trujillo

Studies have suggested that there is a strong correlation between the masses of nuclear star clusters (NSCs) and their host galaxies, a correlation which said to be an extension of the well-known correlations between supermassive black…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-21 Peter Erwin , Dimitri Gadotti

The majority of galaxies are known to have supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at their core, which have a tremendous gravitational pull on the objects around them. When embedded within extended matter distributions such as prolate, shell-like…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-18 Uditi Nag , Yeasin Ali , Suparna Roychowdhury

We use QSO emission-line widths to examine the black hole mass - sigma relationship as a function of redshift and to extend the relationship to larger masses. Supermassive black holes in galactic nuclei are closely related to the bulge of…

We investigate how a property of a galaxy correlates most tightly with a property of its host dark matter halo, using state-of-the-art hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation EAGLE, Illustris, and IllustrisTNG. Unlike most of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-11 Jian-hua He

We explore how the co-evolution of massive black holes (MBHs) and galaxies is affected by environmental effects, addressing in particular MBHs hosted in the central galaxies of clusters (we will refer to these galaxies in general as 'CGs').…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Marta Volonteri , Luca Ciotti

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) probably control the growth of their host galaxies via feedback in the form of wide-angle wind-driven outflows. These establish the observed correlations between supermassive black hole (SMBH) masses and host…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-08 Kastytis Zubovas , Andrew R. King

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

Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) with dynamically measured masses have shown empirical correlations with host galaxy properties. These correlations are often the only method available to estimate SMBH masses and gather statistics for large…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-11 Maggie C. Huber , Joseph Simon , Julia M. Comerford

We reason that, without physical fine-tuning, neither the supermassive black holes (SMBHs) nor the stellar bulges can self-regulate or inter-regulate by driving away already fallen cold gas to produce the observed correlation between them.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Renyue Cen

It is now well-established that a dark, compact object (DCO), very likely a massive black hole (MBH) of around four million solar masses is lurking at the centre of the Milky Way. While a consensus is emerging about the origin and growth of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-05 Pau Amaro-Seoane