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The origin of the mass scaling relation between supermassive black holes (SMBHs, $M_{\rm BH}$) and galaxies ($M_*$) remains a key open question. Rather than invoking AGN feedback, a non-causal mechanism has been proposed in which multiple…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-10 Takumi S. Tanaka , John D. Silverman , Kazuhiro Shimasaku , Knud Jahnke , Junyao Li , Makoto Ando

The masses of supermassive black holes correlate almost perfectly with the velocity dispersions of their host bulges, M(BH) ~ sigma^alpha, where alpha =4.8 +/- 0.5$. The relation is much tighter than the relation between M(BH) and bulge…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Laura Ferrarese , David Merritt

We investigate the correlation between the supermassive black holes (SMBHs) mass ($M_{\rm bh}$) and the stellar velocity dispersion ($\sigma_*$) in two types of host galaxies: the early-type bulges (disk galaxies with classical bulges or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jian Hu

Growing evidence indicate supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in a mass range of $M_{\rm BH}$$\sim 106-10^{10}M_{\odot}$ lurking in central stellar bulges of galaxies.Extensive observations reveal fairly tight power laws of $M_{\rm BH}$ versus…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yu-Qing Lou , Yan-Fei Jiang

Observations have established that the masses of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) correlate tightly with the stellar masses of their host galaxies, albeit with substantial scatter. The magnitude of this scatter as a function of galaxy mass…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-15 Bocheng Zhu , Volker Springel

Thanks to the angular resolution of modern telescopes and kinematic models, the existence of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in the inner part of galaxies has been established on quite solid grounds. A possible correlation between the mass…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-03-29 Luigi Mancini , Antonio Feoli

We carry out a comprehensive Bayesian correlation analysis between hot halos and direct masses of supermassive black holes (SMBHs), by retrieving the X-ray plasma properties (temperature, luminosity, density, pressure, masses) over galactic…

We study the scaling relation between the black hole and stellar mass ($M_\bullet-M_*$), diagnosing the residual $\Delta \log(M_\bullet/M_\odot)$ ($\Delta$) in this relation to understand the coevolution of the galaxy and black hole (BH) in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-29 Wenlin Ma , Weiguang Cui , Romeel Davé , Daniel Anglés-Alcázar , Hong Guo

It is well known that supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and their host galaxies co-evolve. A manifestation of this co-evolution is the correlation that has been found between the SMBH mass, M$_{BH}$, and the galaxy bulge or stellar mass,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-12 George Mountrichas

We examine the properties of the host galaxies of $z=7$ quasars using the large volume, cosmological hydrodynamical simulation BlueTides. We find that the 10 most massive black holes and the 191 quasars in the simulation (with…

In this paper, we explore the establishment and evolution of the empirical correlation between black hole mass and velocity dispersion with redshift. We track the growth and accretion history of massive black holes starting from high…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Marta Volonteri , Priyamvada Natarajan

We investigate the evolution of the MBH-{\sigma} relation by examining the relationship between the intrinsic scatter in the MBH-{\sigma} relation and galaxy bolometric nuclear luminosity, the latter being a probe of the accretion rate of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-04 Gongjie Li , Charlie Conroy , Abraham Loeb

We study the clustering of the highest-z galaxies (from ~ $0.1$ to a few tens Mpc scales) using the BLUETIDES simulation and compare it to current observational constraints from Hubble legacy and Hyper Suprime Cam (HSC) fields (at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-29 Aklant Kumar Bhowmick , Tiziana Di Matteo , Yu Feng , Francois Lanusse

Recent observations have identified an abundance of high-redshift active galactic nuclei (AGN) with supermassive black holes (BHs) that are over-massive compared to the local BH mass$-$total stellar mass ($M_{\mathrm{BH}}-M_\star$)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-02 Jonathan H. Cohn , Emmanuel Durodola , Quinn O. Casey , Erini Lambrides , Ryan C. Hickox

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

Supermassive Black Holes (BHs) residing in brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) are overly massive when considering the local relationships between the BH mass and stellar bulge mass or velocity dispersion. Due to the location of these BHs…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-01 Frederika Phipps , Akos Bogdan , Lorenzo Lovisari , Orsolya E. Kovacs , Marta Volonteri , Yohan Dubois

We have measured the stellar velocity dispersions (\sigma_*) and estimated the central black hole (BH) masses for over 900 broad-line active galactic nuclei (AGNs) observed with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The sample includes objects…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 J. Shen , D. E. Vanden Berk , D. P. Schneider , P. B. Hall

Black hole - galaxy scaling relations provide information about the coevolution of supermassive black holes and their host galaxies. We compare the black hole mass - circular velocity (MBH - Vc) relation with the black hole mass - bulge…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Ai-Lei Sun , Jenny E. Greene , C. M. Violette Impellizzeri , Cheng-Yu Kuo , James A. Braatz , Sarah Tuttle

The concurrent growth of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and their host galaxies remains to be fully explored, especially at high redshift. While often understood as a consequence of self-regulation via AGN feedback, it can also be…