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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

We explore several correlations between various large-scale galaxy properties, particularly total globular cluster population (N_GCS), the central black hole mass (M_BH), velocity dispersion (nominally sigma_e), and bulge mass (M_dyn). Our…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Gretchen L. H. Harris , Gregory B. Poole , William E. Harris

This paper presents an analysis of the correlation between the number of globular clusters (N_GC) in giant galaxies and the mass of the galaxies' central supermassive black hole (M_SMBH). I construct a sample of 20 elliptical, spiral, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Katherine L. Rhode

The relations between masses of Super-Massive Black Holes, Mbh, in galactic nuclei, maximal rotational velocities, Vm, and indicative masses, Mi, of galaxies are studied for galaxies with the available rotation curves. Mbh correlates with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. V. Zasov , A. M. Cherepashchuk , L. N. Petrochenko

Massive black holes detected in the centers of many nearby galaxies are linearly correlated with the luminosity of the host bulge, the black hole mass being about 0.1% of the bulge mass. An even stronger relation exists between the BH mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Amri Wandel

We review the current knowledge about nuclear star clusters (NSCs), the spectacularly dense and massive assemblies of stars found at the centers of most galaxies. Recent observational and theoretical work suggest that many NSC properties,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-15 Nadine Neumayer , Anil Seth , Torsten Boeker

The coexistence of nuclear star clusters (NSCs) and supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in galaxies with stellar masses $\sim 10^{10}~$M$_\odot$, the scaling relations between their properties and properties of the host galaxy (e.g.,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-30 M. Liempi , D. R. G. Schleicher , A. Benson , A. Escala , M. C. Vergara

The centers of galaxies host a supermassive black hole surrounded by a dense stellar cluster. The cluster is expected to develop mass segregation, in which gravitational scatterings among the stars cause heavier objects to sink closer to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-15 Shmuel Balberg

We describe a correlation between the mass M_BH of a galaxy's central black hole and the luminosity-weighted line-of-sight velocity dispersion sigma_e within the half-light radius. The result is based on a sample of 26 galaxies, including…

We explore the relation between the total globular cluster population in a galaxy (N_GC) and the the mass of its central black hole (M_BH). Using a sample of 33 galaxies, twice as large as the original sample discussed by Burkert & Tremaine…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Gretchen L. H. Harris , William E. Harris

The centers of stellar spheroids are often marked by the presence of nucleated central regions, called nuclear star clusters (NSCs). The origin of NSCs is still unclear. Here we investigate the possibility that NSCs originate from the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 Fabio Antonini

Massive black holes (MBHs) with a mass below ~ 1e7 Msun are likely to reside at the centre of dense stellar nuclei shaped by 2-body relaxation, close interactions with the MBH and direct collisions. In this contribution, we stress the role…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Marc Freitag , James E. Dale , Ross P. Church , Melvyn B. Davies

For galaxies hosting supermassive black holes (SMBHs), it has been observed that the mass of the central black hole (M_BH) tightly correlates with the effective or central velocity dispersion (sigma) of the host galaxy. The origin of this…

Using results from structural analysis of a sample of nearly 1000 local galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, we estimate how the mass in central black holes is distributed amongst elliptical galaxies, classical bulges and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Dimitri A. Gadotti , Guinevere Kauffmann

It is now well established that many galaxies have nuclear star clusters (NCs) whose total masses correlate with the velocity dispersion (sigma) of the galaxy spheroid in a very similar way to the well--known supermassive black hole (SMBH)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Sergei Nayakshin , Mark I. Wilkinson , Andrew King

(Abridged) We combine published photometry for the nuclear star clusters (NSCs) and stellar spheroids of 51 low-mass, early-type galaxies in the Virgo cluster with empirical mass-to-light ratios, in order to complement previous studies that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 Nathan Leigh , Torsten Böker , Christian Knigge

Supermassive black holes containing ~0.5% of the stellar mass of their host galaxies appear to be ubiquitous components of galactic nuclei. The gravitational force from these central singularities can influence the motion of stars far…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 David Merritt

Observations have shown that supermassive black holes in nearby elliptical galaxies correlate tightly with the stellar velocity dispersion (the $\MBH - \sigma$ relation) and the stellar mass (the $\MBH - \Mhost$ relation) of their host…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-10-31 Sydney Sherman , Mouyuan Sun , Qirong Zhu , Jonathan R. Trump , Yuexing Li

We explore the connection between the central supermassive blackholes (SMBH) in galaxies and the dark matter halo through the relation between the masses of the SMBHs and the maximum circular velocities of the host galaxies, as well as the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Bassem M. Sabra , Charbel Saliba , Maya Abi Akl , Gilbert Chahine

[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