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The observational link between Supermassive Black Holes (SMBH) and galaxies at low redshift seems to be very tight, and statistically the global evolution of star formation activity and BH accretion activity also seem to trace each other…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-08-11 Rachel S. Somerville

We investigate the cosmic evolution of the black hole (BH) mass -- bulge luminosity relation using a sample of 52 active galaxies at $z \sim 0.36$ and $z \sim 0.57$ in the BH mass range of $10^{7.4-9.1} M_{\odot}$. By consistently applying…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Daeseong Park , Jong-Hak Woo , Vardha N. Bennert , Tommaso Treu , Matthew W. Auger , Matthew A. Malkan

We study the impact of supermassive black hole (SMBH) growth, $\langle \dot{M}_\mathrm{SMBH}\rangle$, major and minor galaxy mergers, and gas processes, on the average gas metallicity of galaxies, with the aim to uncover which of these…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-05 Aaron R. Rowntree , Fiorenzo Vincenzo , Ankit Singh , Gareth Few , Jaehyun Lee , Christophe Pichon

Galaxies reside within dark matter halos, but their properties are influenced not only by their halo properties but also by the surrounding environment. We construct an interpretable neural network framework to characterize the surrounding…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-01 Shun-ya S. Uchida , Suchetha Cooray , Atsushi J. Nishizawa , Tsutomu T. Takeuchi , Peter Behroozi

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…

We append two additional black hole (BH) accretion models, namely viscous disc and gravitational torque-driven accretion, into the Numerical Investigation of a Hundred Astrophysical Objects (NIHAO) project of galaxy simulations. We show…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-09 Nadine H. Soliman , Andrea V. Macciò , Marvin Blank

We perform hydrodynamical simulations of major galaxy mergers using new methods for calculating the growth of massive black holes (BH) in galactic nuclei and their impact on the surrounding galaxy. We model BH growth by including a subgrid…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Jackson DeBuhr , Eliot Quataert , Chung-Pei Ma , Philip Hopkins

An increasing number of exoplanets have been discovered in the Milky Way galaxy, which is also known to harbour a super-massive black hole (Sagittarius A*) at its centre. Here, we investigate how the central black hole (BH) activity may…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-31 W. Ishibashi

Galaxy properties are known to be affected by their environment. This is well established for the extremes of the density scales, between the high-density cluster environment and the low-density field. It is however not fully understood how…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-20 Callum J. O'Kane , Ulrike Kuchner , Meghan E. Gray , Alfonso Aragón-Salamanca

Observations suggest an SMBH-host coevolution. We consider the mass and energy flow in a bulge suffused by gases of varying temperatures. By assuming the rate of energy flow independent of the distance from the bulge center and the local…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-15 Zhijie Jay Xu

The presence of strong correlations between super-massive black hole (SMBH) masses and galaxy properties like stellar mass have been well-established in the local Universe, but how these scaling relations evolve with cosmic time is yet to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-29 Matías Bravo , Claudia del P. Lagos , Katy L. Proctor , Ángel Chandro-Gómez , Chris Power

The realization of fundamental relations between supermassive black holes and their host galaxies would have profound implications in astrophysics. To add further context to studies of their co-evolution, an investigation is carried out to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-20 John Silverman , Junyao Li , Xuheng Ding

We study the correlations between Supermassive Black Holes (BH) and their host galaxies, using a sample of 83 BH masses collected from the most recent and reliable spatially resolved estimates available from the literature. We confirm the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-25 Stefano de Nicola , Alessandro Marconi , Giuseppe Longo

The correlations between the mass of supermassive black holes and properties of their host galaxies are investigated through cosmological simulations. Black holes grow from seeds of 100 solar masses inserted into density peaks present in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Ch. Filloux , F. Durier , J. A. de Freitas Pacheco , J. Silk

We consider the impact of non-power-law spectra of matter perturbations with a bump or with a blue tilt at small scales on the evolution of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) located the innermost part of galaxies. We study SMBH's mass growth…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-26 M. V. Tkachev , S. V. Pilipenko , E. V. Mikheeva , V. N. Lukash

[abridged] This work aims to observationally investigate the history of size growth of early-type galaxies and how the growth depends on cosmic epoch and the mass of the halo in which they are embedded. We carried out a photometric and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-26 S. Andreon

Studies of black hole superradiance often focus on the growth of a cloud in isolation, accompanied by the spin-down of the black hole. In this paper, we consider the additional effect of the accretion of matter and angular momentum from the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-26 Lam Hui , Y. T. Albert Law , Luca Santoni , Guanhao Sun , Giovanni Maria Tomaselli , Enrico Trincherini

We study the effects of galaxy environment on the evolution of the stellar-mass function (SMF) over 0.2 < z < 2.0 using the FourStar Galaxy Evolution (ZFOURGE) survey and NEWFIRM Medium-Band Survey (NMBS) down to the stellar-mass…

We make use of four galaxy catalogs based on four different semi-analytical models (SAMs) implemented in the Millennium simulation to study the environmental effects and the model dependence of galaxy merger rate. We begin the analyses by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-30 Hung-Yu Jian , Lihwai Lin , Tzihong Chiueh

We examine the relationship between the mass of present-day central supermassive black holes (SMBHs, $M_{\rm BH}$), and the stellar mass ($M_{\star}$) and halo mass ($M_{200}$) of their host galaxies in the EAGLE simulation, and find that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-09 Ryan J. Roberts , Jonathan J. Davies , Robert A. Crain