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This poster discusses a possible explanation for the relationship between the mass of the central supermassive black hole and the velocity dispersion in the bulge of the host galaxy. We suppose that the black hole and the dark matter halo…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Joseph D. MacMillan , Richard N. Henriksen

Black hole masses predicted from the Mbh-sigma relationship conflict with those predicted from the Mbh-L relationship for the most luminous galaxies, such as brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs). This is because stellar velocity dispersion,…

Massive black holes have been discovered in all closely examined galaxies with high velocity dispersion. The case is not as clear for lower-dispersion systems such as low-mass galaxies and globular clusters. Here we suggest that above a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 M. Coleman Miller , Melvyn B. Davies

Using HST, we identify circumnuclear ($100$-$500$ pc scale) structures in nine new H$_2$O megamaser host galaxies to understand the flow of matter from kpc-scale galactic structures down to the supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-07 Patryk Pjanka , Jenny E. Greene , Anil C. Seth , James A. Braatz , Christian Henkel , Fred K. Y. Lo , Ronald Laesker

The central regions of galaxies show the presence of massive black holes and/or dense stellar systems. The question about their modes of formation is still under debate. A likely explanation of the formation of the central dense stellar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-12 R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta , M. Arca-Sedda , M. Spera

Empirical evidence for both stellar mass black holes M_bh<10^2 M_sun) and supermassive black holes (SMBHs, M_bh>10^5 M_sun) is well established. Moreover, every galaxy with a bulge appears to host a SMBH, whose mass is correlated with the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 Margarita Safonova , Prajval Shastri

Nuclear Star Clusters (NSCs) are often present in spiral galaxies as well as resolved Stellar Nuclei (SNi) in elliptical galaxies centres. Ever growing observational data indicate the existence of correlations between the properties of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-09-22 Manuel Arca-Sedda , Roberto Capuzzo-Dolcetta

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 show that Massive Black Holes of AGNs follow the same approximately linear relation with the luminosity of the host spheroid (bulge) found in normal (quiescent) galaxies, with the black hole mass being ~0.002 that of the bulge. We also…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Wandel

We explain the M-sigma relation between the mass of super massive black holes in galaxies and the velocity dispersions of their bulges in the scalar field or the Bose-Einstein condensate dark matter model. The gravity of the central black…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-22 Jae-Weon Lee , Jungjai Lee , Hyeong-Chan Kim

Galactic nuclei should contain a cluster of stars and compact objects in the vicinity of the central supermassive black hole due to stellar evolution, minor mergers and gravitational dynamical friction. By analogy with protoplanetary…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 B. McKernan , K. E. S. Ford , W. Lyra , H. B. Perets , L. M. Winter , T. Yaqoob

We solve for the velocity fields of momentum-conserving supershells driven from galaxy centres by steady winds from supermassive black holes or nuclear star clusters (central massive objects: CMOs). We look for the critical CMO mass that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-24 Rachael C. McQuillin , Dean E. McLaughlin

Using deep, high resolution optical imaging from the Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey we study the properties of nuclear star clusters (NSCs) in a sample of nearly 400 quiescent galaxies in the core of Virgo with stellar masses…

An updated catalogue of 76 galaxies with direct supermassive black hole mass measurements (M_bh) plus, when available, their host bulge's central velocity dispersion (sigma_0) is provided. Fifty of these mass measurements are considered…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-26 Alister W. Graham

We review the motivation and search for supermassive black holes (BHs) in galaxies. Energetic nuclear activity provides indirect but compelling evidence for BH engines. Ground-based dynamical searches for central dark objects are reviewed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 John Kormendy , Karl Gebhardt

We examine gravitational lensing constraints on the structure of galaxy clusters and compare them with the results of cosmological N-body simulations of cluster formation in cold dark matter (CDM) dominated universes. We find that cluster…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Liliya L. R. Williams , Julio F. Navarro , Matthias Bartelmann

We derive new constraints on the mass, rotation, orbit structure and statistical parallax of the Galactic old nuclear star cluster (NSC) and the mass of the supermassive black hole. We combine star counts and kinematic data from Fritz et al…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Sotiris Chatzopoulos , Tobias Fritz , Ortwin Gerhard , Stefan Gillessen , Chris Wegg , Reinhard Genzel , Oliver Pfuhl

Supermassive black holes in galactic nuclei show a close relationship between the black hole mass, luminosity, and stellar velocity dispersion (sigma_*) of the host galaxy bulge. Probing these relationships at high redshift may shed light…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. W. Bonning , G. A. Shields , S. Salviander , R. J. McLure