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The origin of the dichotomy of radio loudness among quasars can be explained using recent findings that the mass of the central supermassive black hole (SMBH) in extended radio-loud quasars is systematically a few times that of their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Gopal-Krishna , A. Mangalam , Paul J. Wiita

Several independent lines of evidence now point to a correlation between black hole mass, M_bh, and radio-luminosity. In this paper we discuss the correlation for quasars from the FIRST Bright Quasar Survey (FBQS), using black hole mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 M. Lacy , S. A. Laurent-Muehleisen , S. E. Ridgway , R. H. Becker , R. L. White

During the final stages of a galaxy merger, dynamical friction acting on the supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in the post-merger remnant can lead to the formation of a gravitationally bound binary SMBH. In the event that at least one of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-25 Peter Breiding , Michael Eracleous , Tamara Bogdanović , Sarah Burke-Spolaor , T. Joseph W. Lazio

The properties of quasar-host galaxies might be determined by the growth and feedback of their supermassive (SMBH, $10^{8-10}$ M$_{\odot}$) black holes. We investigate such connection with a suite of cosmological simulations of massive…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-16 Milena Valentini , Simona Gallerani , Andrea Ferrara

Intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs; $M_{BH} <2*10^{5} M_{\odot}$) in galaxy centers are cruciel for painting a coherent picture of the formation and growth of supermassive black holes (SMBHs). Using Big Data analysis, we identified 305…

We investigate the relationship between the mass of the central supermassive black hole, M_bh, and the host galaxy luminosity, L_gal, in a sample of quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 7 (DR7). We use composite…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 S. Salviander , G. A. Shields , E. W. Bonning

We present host stellar velocity dispersion measurements for a sample of 88 broad-line quasars at 0.1<z<1 (46 at z>0.6) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping (SDSS-RM) project. High signal-to-noise ratio coadded spectra…

Galaxy bulge luminosity L, black hole mass (Mbh), and stellar velocity dispersion (sigma_*) increase together in a way suggesting a close evolutionary relationship. Measurements of the Mbh-sigma_* relationship as a function of cosmic time…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. W. Bonning , G. A. Shields , S. Salviander , R. J. McLure

It remains debatable how billion-solar-mass supermassive black holes (SMBHs) form and evolve within the first billion years. We report results from a James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)/NIRSpec integral field unit (IFU) survey of 27 luminous…

The mass of massive black holes in quasar cores can be deduced using the typical velocities of Hb-emitting clouds in the Broad Line Region (BLR) and the size of this region. However, this estimate depends on various assumptions and is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Ari Laor

The central black-hole masses of a sample of 30 luminous quasars are estimated using H-beta FWHM measurements from a combination of new and previously-published nuclear spectra. The quasar black-hole mass estimates are combined with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. J. McLure , J. S. Dunlop

The correlation between black hole mass M(BH) and the central stellar velocity dispersion sigma in nearby elliptical galaxies affords a novel way to determine M(BH) in active galaxies. We report on measurements of sigma from optical spectra…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. K. Kotilainen , R. Falomo , A. Treves

We report on the relation between the mass of supermassive black holes (SMBHs; M_BH) and that of hosting dark matter halos (M_h) for 49 z ~ 6 quasi-stellar objects (QSOs) with [CII]158um velocity-width measurements. Here, we estimate M_h…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-26 Kazuhiro Shimasaku , Takuma Izumi

In the local universe, the masses of Super-Massive Black-Holes (SMBH) appear to correlate with physical properties of their hosts, including the mass of the dark-matter halos. At higher redshifts, we observe the growth of SMBHs indirectly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Stuart Wyithe , T. Padmanabhan

We measure the correlation between black-hole mass $M_{\rm BH}$ and host stellar mass $M_*$ for a sample of 38 broad-line quasars at $0.2\lesssim z\lesssim 0.8$ (median redshift $z_{\rm med}=0.5$). The black-hole masses are derived from a…

The $M_{BH}$ - $\sigma_{\star}$ relation is considered a result of co-evolution between the host galaxies and their super-massive black holes. For elliptical-bulge hosting inactive galaxies, this relation is well established, but there is…

Supermassive black hole (SMBH) binary systems are unavoidable outcomes of galaxy mergers. Their dynamics encode information about their formation and growth, the composition of their host galactic nuclei, the evolution of galaxies, and the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-17 Hanxi Wang , Miguel Zumalacárregui , Bence Kocsis

We demonstrate that a log-linear relation does not provide an adequate description of the correlation between the masses of Super-Massive Black-Holes (SMBH, M_bh) and the velocity dispersions of their host spheroid (sigma). An unknown…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Stuart Wyithe

The relationship between the black hole mass and velocity dispersion indicated with [O III] line width is investigated for a sample of 87 flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) selected from SDSS DR3 quasar catalogue. We found the M_bh -…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Minfeng Gu , Zhaoyu Chen , Xinwu Cao