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Intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) are a missing link in black hole demographics, with only tentative observational evidence to date. Dense stellar clusters such as IRS 13E near the Galactic Center are promising IMBH hosts, where…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-29 Matúš Labaj , Sean M. Ressler , Michal Zajaček , Tomáš Plšek , Bart Ripperda , Florian Peißker

Gravitational waves emitted during intermediate-mass-ratio inspirals (IMRIs) of intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) into supermassive black holes could represent a very interesting source for LISA. Similarly, IMRIs of stellar-mass compact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-13 Ilya Mandel , Jonathan R. Gair

Galactic nuclei are potential hosts for intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs), whose gravitational field can affect the motion of stars and compact objects. The absence of observable perturbations in our own Galactic Centre has resulted in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-19 Vladimir Strokov , Giacomo Fragione , Emanuele Berti

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed a population of dense stellar systems at high redshift, including the "Cosmic Gems" arc ($z \sim 10.2$) and the "Firefly Sparkle" ($z \sim 8.3$). With masses in the range of $10^5$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-29 Viola Bocchi , Matías Liempi , Dominik R. G. Schleicher

Intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs; $M_{BH} \approx 10^{3-5} M_\odot$) play a critical role in understanding the formation of supermassive black holes in the early universe. In this study, we expand on Nguyen et al. simulated measurements…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-04 Hai N. Ngo , Dieu D. Nguyen , Tinh T. Q. Le , Tien H. T. Ho , Truong N. Nguyen , Trung H. Dang

Observations of stellar kinematics, gas dynamics and masers around galactic nuclei have now firmly established that many galaxies host central supermassive black holes (SMBHs) with masses in the range $10^6 \sim 10^9$M$_{\odot}$. However,…

Theoretical models suggest that intermediate mass black holes (IMBHs) may form and reside in the centers of globular clusters. IMBHs are still elusive to observations, but the accelerations of pulsars may bring along a unique fingerprint of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-16 Federico Abbate , Andrea Possenti , Monica Colpi , Mario Spera

We report the formation of intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) in suites of numerical $N$-body simulations of Population III remnant black holes (BHs) embedded in gas-rich protogalaxies at redshifts $z\gtrsim10$. We model the effects of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-07-27 Taeho Ryu , Takamitsu L. Tanaka , Rosalba Perna , Zoltan Haiman

The different methods of determination of black holes (BHs) masses are presented for three classes of BHs observed in the Universe: stellar mass BHs, intermediate mass BHs (IMBHs) and supermassive BHs (SBHs). The results of these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-08-05 Janusz Ziolkowski

Intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) are the missing link between stellar-mass and supermassive black holes, widely believed to reside in at least some dense star clusters, but not yet observed directly. Tidal disruptions of white dwarfs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-15 Claire S. Ye , Giacomo Fragione , Rosalba Perna

The firm co-existence of intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs, $M_{\rm BH} \approx 10^3-10^6 M_odot$) in nuclear star clusters (NSCs) remains uncertain because the limited number of verified instances within the local Universe, limited…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-04 Hai N Ngo , Dieu D. Nguyen , Truong N. Nguyen , Trung H. Dang , Tien H. T. Ho

We present the first results of a series of Monte-Carlo simulations investigating the imprint of a central black hole on the core structure of a globular cluster. We investigate the three-dimensional and the projected density profile of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-03-07 Stefan Umbreit , John M. Fregeau , Frederic A. Rasio

Intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs: masses between $100 - 10^{6} M_{\odot}$) historically comprise of an elusive population compared to stellar-mass and supermassive BHs. Recently IMBHs have started to be observed at the centers of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-19 Paramita Barai , Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino

Dense stellar environments like nuclear star clusters (NSCs) can dynamically assemble gravitational wave (GW) sources. We consider a population of single stellar mass black holes (BHs) in the inner $0.1$~pc of a NSC surrounding a $4 \times…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-10 Amanda Newton , Sanaea C. Rose , Fulya Kıroğlu , Bao-Minh Hoang , Frederic A. Rasio

Recent theoretical work has solidified the viability of the collisional runaway scenario in young dense star clusters for the formation of very massive stars (VMSs), which may be precursors to intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs). We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Atakan Gürkan , John M. Fregeau , Frederic A. Rasio

We analyzed images of every northern hemisphere Sd galaxy listed in the Third Reference Catalogue of Bright Galaxies (RC3) with a relatively face-on inclination ($\theta\leq30{\deg}$). Specifically, we measured the spiral arms' winding…

The formation of compact stellar-mass binaries is a difficult, but interesting problem in astrophysics. There are two main formation channels: In the field via binary star evolution, or in dense stellar systems via dynamical interactions.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-21 Xian Chen , Pau Amaro-Seoane

We investigate a possibility to find an accreting isolated black hole (IBH) with mass $1-100~\mathrm{M}_{\odot}$ within Central Galactic Molecular Zone (CMZ) in the submillimetre and IR spectral range with help of planned space…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-21 P. B. Ivanov , V. N. Lukash , S. V. Pilipenko , M. S. Pshirkov

Stellar-remnant black holes (BH) in dense stellar clusters comprise a natural setup to trigger general-relativistic (GR) inspiral and merger of binary black holes (BBH), detectable by the LISA and the LIGO-Virgo, through dynamical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-10 Sambaran Banerjee

The proposal of a galactic population of intermediate mass black holes (IMBHs), forming dark matter (DM) ``mini-spikes'' around them, has received considerable attention in recent years. In fact, leading in some scenarios to large…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-15 Torsten Bringmann , Julien Lavalle , Pierre Salati
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