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We study black hole - host galaxy correlations, and the relation between the over-massiveness (the distance from the average $M_{BH}-\sigma$ relation) of super-massive black holes (SMBHs) and star formation histories of their host galaxies…

Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are known to correlate with many properties of their host galaxies, but we do not fully understand these correlations. The strengths (tightness) of these correlations have also been widely debated. In this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-24 Jacob Reinheimer , Yuan Li , Trung Ha , Melanie Habouzit , Brandon M. Matthews , George Blaney

We present a relationship between spiral arm pitch angle (a measure of the tightness of spiral structure) and the mass of supermassive black holes (BHs) in the nuclei of disk galaxies. We argue that this relationship is expected through a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Marc S. Seigar , Daniel Kennefick , Julia Kennefick , Claud H. S. Lacy

We present new and stronger evidence for a previously reported relationship between galactic spiral arm pitch angle P (a measure of the tightness of spiral structure) and the mass M_BH of a disk galaxy's nuclear supermassive black hole…

We study the properties of black holes and their host galaxies across cosmic time in the Illustris simulation. Illustris is a large scale cosmological hydrodynamical simulation which resolves a (106.5 Mpc)^3 volume with more than 12 billion…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-07-15 Debora Sijacki , Mark Vogelsberger , Shy Genel , Volker Springel , Paul Torrey , Greg Snyder , Dylan Nelson , Lars Hernquist

A variety of host galaxy (bulge) parameters are examined in order to determine their predictive power in ascertaining the masses of the supermassive black holes (SMBH) at the centers of the galaxies. Based on a sample of 23 nearby galaxies,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. C. Aller , D. O. Richstone

We use the high-resolution cosmological simulation Illustris to investigate the clustering of supermassive black holes across cosmic time, the link between black hole clustering and host halo masses, and the implications for black hole duty…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-01 Colin DeGraf , Debora Sijacki

We have conducted an image analysis of the (current) full sample of 44 spiral galaxies with directly measured supermassive black hole (SMBH) masses, $M_{\rm BH}$, to determine each galaxy's logarithmic spiral arm pitch angle, $\phi$. For…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-20 Benjamin L. Davis , Alister W. Graham , Marc S. Seigar

We study how optical galaxy morphology depends on mass and star formation rate (SFR) in the Illustris Simulation. To do so, we measure automated galaxy structures in 10808 simulated galaxies at z=0 with stellar masses 10^9.7 < M_*/M_sun <…

Recent observations suggest that the extended stellar halos of low-redshift massive galaxies are tightly connected to the assembly of their dark matter halos. In this paper, we use the Illustris, IllustrisTNG100, and IllustrisTNG300…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-17 Shuo Xu , Song Huang , Alexie Leauthaud , Benedikt Diemer , Katya Leidig , Carlo Cannarozzo , Conghao Zhou

Recent X-ray observations have revealed remarkable correlations between the masses of central supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and the X-ray properties of the hot atmospheres permeating their host galaxies, thereby indicating the crucial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-06 Nhut Truong , Annalisa Pillepich , Norbert Werner

Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are tiny in comparison to the galaxies they inhabit, yet they manage to influence and coevolve along with their hosts. Evidence of this mutual development is observed in the structure and dynamics of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-12 Benjamin L. Davis , Zehao Jin

We have utilized high-resolution optical Hubble Space Telescope images and deep, ground-based near-infrared images to examine the host-galaxies of 37 active galactic nuclei with reverberation-based black hole masses. Using two-dimensional…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-19 Misty C. Bentz , Emily Manne-Nicholas

We examine the scaling relations between the mass of a supermassive black hole (SMBH) and its host galaxy properties at $1.2<z<1.7$ using both observational data and simulations. Recent measurements of 32 X-ray-selected broad-line Active…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-11 Xuheng Ding , Tommaso Treu , John D. Silverman , Aklant K. Bhowmick , N. Menci , Tiziana Di Matteo

We use a large sample of upper limits and accurate estimates of supermassive black holes masses coupled with libraries of host galaxy velocity dispersions, rotational velocities and photometric parameters extracted from Sloan Digital Sky…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 A. Beifiori , S. Courteau , E. M. Corsini , Y. Zhu

The discovery of a relationship between supermassive black hole (SMBH) mass and spiral arm pitch angle (P) is evidence that SMBHs are tied to the overall secular evolution of a galaxy. The discovery of SMBHs in late-type galaxies with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Patrick Treuthardt , Marc S. Seigar , Amber D. Sierra , Ismaeel Al-Baidhany , Heikki Salo , Daniel Kennefick , Julia Kennefick , Claud H. S. Lacy

In the last decades several correlations between the mass of the central supermassive black hole (BH) and properties of the host galaxy - such as bulge luminosity and mass, central stellar velocity dispersion, S\'ersic index, spiral pitch…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-24 Gerold Busch

The (supermassive black hole mass, $M_\text{BH}$)-(bulge stellar mass, $M_{\rm*,sph}$) relation is, obviously, derived using two quantities. We endeavor to provide accurate values for the latter via detailed multicomponent galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-12 Benjamin L. Davis , Alister W. Graham , Ewan Cameron

In an effort to secure, refine and supplement the relation between central Supermassive Black Hole masses (Mbh), and the bulge luminosities of their host galaxies, (Lbul), we obtained deep, high spatial resolution K-band images of 35 nearby…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Ronald Läsker , Laura Ferrarese , Glenn van de Ven

The possibility that the masses of supermassive black holes (SBHs) correlate with the total gravitational mass of their host galaxy, or the mass of the dark matter halo in which they presumably formed, is investigated using a sample of 16…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 Laura Ferrarese
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