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The disk of an active galactic nucleus (AGN) is widely regarded as a prominent formation channel of binary black hole (BBH) mergers that can be detected through gravitational waves (GWs). Besides, the presence of dense environmental gas…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-20 Ken Chen , Zi-Gao Dai

We study the possibility that minor mergers resolve the loss cone depletion problem, which is the difficulty occured in the coalescence process of the supermassive black hole (SMBH) binary, by performing numerical simulations with a highly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Hidenori Matsui , Asao Habe

We consider the question here whether the proposed electromagnetic counterpart of the gravitational wave signals in binary black hole coalescence may be due to the appearance of a `short lived' naked singularity during the merger. We point…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-10 Daniele Malafarina , Pankaj S. Joshi

As one step towards a systematic modeling of the electromagnetic (EM) emission from an inspiralling black hole binary we consider a simple scenario in which the binary moves in a uniform magnetic field anchored to a distant circumbinary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 Philipp Mösta , Carlos Palenzuela , Luciano Rezzolla , Luis Lehner , Shin'ichirou Yoshida , Denis Pollney

Although supermassive black holes (SMBHs) correlate well with their host galaxies, there is an emerging view that outliers exist. Henize 2-10, NGC 4889, and NGC1277 are examples of SMBHs at least an order of magnitude more massive than…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Fazeel Khan , Kelly Holley-Bockelmann , Peter Berczik

The evolution of Supermassive Black Holes (SMBHs) initially embedded in the centres of merging galaxies realised with a stellar mass function (SMF) is studied from the onset of galaxy mergers till coalescence. We performed a large set of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-18 Fazeel Mahmood Khan , Peter Berczik , Andreas Just

Using a one-dimensional height integrated model, we calculate the evolution of an unequal mass binary black hole with a coplanar gas disk that contains a gap due to the presence of the secondary black hole. Viscous evolution of the outer…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 P. Chang , L. E. Strubbe , K. Menou , E. Quataert

Coalescing supermassive black hole binaries (BHBs) are expected to be the loudest sources of gravitational waves (GWs) in the Universe. Detection rates for ground or space-based detectors based on cosmological simulations and semi-analytic…

What are the properties of accretion flows in the vicinity of coalescing supermassive black holes (SBHs)? The answer to this question has direct implications for the feasibility of coincident detections of electromagnetic (EM) and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Tamara Bogdanovic , Tanja Bode , Roland Haas , Pablo Laguna , Deirdre Shoemaker

During a galaxy merger, the supermassive black hole (SMBH) in each galaxy is thought to sink to the center of the potential and form a supermassive black hole binary; this binary can eject stars via 3-body scattering, bringing the SMBHs…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-23 Kelly Holley-Bockelmann , Fazeel Mahmood Khan

We study the dynamics of merging compact binaries near a rotating supermassive black hole (SMBH) in a hierarchical triple configuration. We include various general relativistic effects that couple the inner orbit, the outer orbit and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-22 Bin Liu , Dong Lai

Galaxy centers are residing places for Super Massive Black Holes (SMBHs). Galaxy mergers bring SMBHs close together to form gravitationally bound binary systems which, if able to coalesce in less than a Hubble time, would be one of the most…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Fazeel Mahmood Khan , Miguel Preto , Peter Berczik , Ingo Berentzen , Andreas Just , Rainer Spurzem

Supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) with masses in the range 10^4-10^7 M_sun/(1+z), produced in galaxy mergers, are thought to complete their coalescence due to the emission of gravitational waves (GWs). The anticipated detection of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Zoltán Haiman , Bence Kocsis , Kristen Menou , Zoltán Lippai , Zsolt Frei

Binary coalescences are known sources of gravitational waves (GWs) and they encompass combinations of black holes (BHs) and neutron stars (NSs). Here we show that when BHs are embedded in magnetic fields ($B$s) larger than approximately…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-30 Jonas P. Pereira , Carlos H. Coimbra-Araújo , Rita C. dos Anjos , Jaziel G. Coelho

Stellar mass, binary black hole (BBH) mergers dominates the sources of gravitational wave (GW) events so far detected by the LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA (LVK) experiment. The origin of these BBHs is unknown, and no electromagnetic (EM) counterpart has…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-28 Juan C. Rodríguez-Ramírez , Rodrigo Nemmen , Clécio R. Bom

For dark matter to be detectable with gravitational waves from binary black holes, it must reach higher than average densities in their vicinity. In the case of light (wave-like) dark matter, the density of dark matter between the binary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-29 Josu C. Aurrekoetxea , Katy Clough , Jamie Bamber , Pedro G. Ferreira

We investigate the expected gravitational wave emission from coalescing supermassive black hole (SMBH) binaries resulting from mergers of their host galaxies. When galaxies merge, the SMBHs in the host galaxies sink to the center of the new…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Motohiro Enoki , Kaiki T. Inoue , Masahiro Nagashima , Naoshi Sugiyama

We investigate the energy of the gravitational wave from a binary black hole merger by the coalescence of two Kerr black holes with an orbital angular momentum. The coalescence is constructed to be consistent with particle absorption in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-22 Bogeun Gwak

We investigate whether a circumbinary gas disc can coalesce a supermassive black hole binary system in the centre of a galaxy. This is known to be problematic for a prograde disc. We show that in contrast, interaction with a retrograde…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 C. J. Nixon , P. J. Cossins , A. R. King , J. E. Pringle

We report results from simulations in general relativity of magnetized disks accreting onto merging black hole binaries, starting from relaxed disk initial data. The simulations feature an effective, rapid radiative cooling scheme as a…