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Supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) are productions of the hierarchical galaxy formation model. There are many close connections between central SMBH and its host galaxy because the former plays very important roles on the formation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-26 Shuo Li , F. K. Liu , Peter Berczik , Rainer Spurzem

We presents results from Smoothed Particle Magnetohydrodynamics simulations of collapsing molecular cloud cores, and dynamo amplification of the magnetic field in the presence of Mach 10 magnetised turbulence. Our star formation simulations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-18 Terrence S. Tricco , Daniel J. Price , Christoph Federrath , Matthew R. Bate

GW231123, the most massive binary black hole (BH) merger observed to date, involves component BHs with masses inside the pair-instability mass gap and unusually high spins. This challenges standard formation channels such as classical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-30 Ore Gottlieb , Brian D. Metzger , Danat Issa , Sean E. Li , Mathieu Renzo , Maximiliano Isi

The latest studies of massive star evolution indicate that an initially rapidly rotating star with sufficiently low metallicity can produce a rapidly rotating, massive stellar core that could be a progenitor of long-soft gamma-ray bursts…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Yuichiro Sekiguchi , Masaru Shibata

The evolution of Supermassive Black Holes (SMBHs) initially embedded in the centres of merging galaxies realised with a stellar mass function (SMF) is studied from the onset of galaxy mergers till coalescence. We performed a large set of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-18 Fazeel Mahmood Khan , Peter Berczik , Andreas Just

We study a model in which supermassive black holes (SMBHs) can grow by the combined action of gas accretion on heavy seeds and mergers of both heavy (m_s^h=10^5 Msol) and light (m_s^l = 10^2 Msol) seeds. The former result from the direct…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-23 Andrea Petri , Andrea Ferrara , Ruben Salvaterra

Fragmentation of highly differentially rotating massive stars that undergo collapse has been suggested as a possible channel for binary black hole formation. Such a scenario could explain the formation of the new population of massive black…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-09 Lunan Sun , Milton Ruiz , Stuart L. Shapiro

Massive stars disproportionately influence their surroundings. How they form has only started to become clear recently through radiation gas dynamical simulations. However, until now, no simulation has simultaneously included both magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Thomas Peters , Robi Banerjee , Ralf S. Klessen , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low

Approximately two hundred supermassive black holes (SMBHs) have been discovered within the first $\sim$Gyr after the Big Bang. One pathway for the formation of SMBHs is through the collapse of supermassive stars (SMSs). A possible obstacle…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-30 Hiromichi Tagawa , Zoltan Haiman , Bence Kocsis

We develop an analytical model to follow the cosmological evolution of magnetic fields in disk galaxies. Our assumption is that fields are amplified from a small seed field via magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) turbulence. We further assume that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Stanislav Shabala , James M. G. Mead , Paul Alexander

We use cosmological hydrodynamical simulations to show that a significant fraction of the gas in high redshift rare massive halos falls nearly radially to their very centre on extremely short timescales. This process results in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Yohan Dubois , Christophe Pichon , Martin Haehnelt , Taysun Kimm , Adrianne Slyz , Julien Devriendt , Dmitry Pogosyan

Direct collapse of pristine gas in early galaxies is a promissing pathway for forming supermassive black holes (BHs) powering active galactic nuclei (AGNs) at the epoch of reionization (EoR). This seeding mechanism requires suppression of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-21 Kazutaka Kimura , Kohei Inayoshi , Kazuyuki Omukai

Supermassive stars (SMSs) and heavy seed black holes, as their remnants, are promising candidates for Supermassive Black Hole (SMBH) progenitors, especially for ones observed in the early universe $ z\simeq 8.5-10$ by recent JWST…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-21 Masaki Kiyuna , Takashi Hosokawa , Sunmyon Chon

We investigate the formation of the first massive black holes in high redshift galaxies, with the goal of providing insights to which galaxies do or do not host massive black holes. We adopt a novel approach to forming seed black holes in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Jillian Bellovary , Marta Volonteri , Fabio Governato , Sijing Shen , Thomas Quinn , James Wadsley

Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are a ubiquitous component of the nuclei of galaxies. It is normally assumed that, following the merger of two massive galaxies, a SMBH binary will form, shrink due to stellar or gas dynamical processes and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-07-14 Lucio Mayer , Stelios Kazantzidis , Piero Madau , Monica Colpi , Thomas Quinn , James Wadsley

In this paper we review a new scenario for the formation of massive black hole seeds that relies on multi-scale gas inflows initiated by the merger of massive gas-rich galaxies at $z > 6$, where gas has already achieved solar composition.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-14 Lucio Mayer , Silvia Bonoli

Observations of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at high redshifts challenge standard seeding scenarios. We examine a dissipative self-interacting dark matter (dSIDM) model in which gravothermal collapse leads to the formation of massive BH…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-02 Tingwei Shen , Xuejian Shen , Huangyu Xiao , Mark Vogelsberger , Fangzhou Jiang

We present a detailed model for the formation of massive objects at the centers of galaxies. The effects of supernovae heating and the conditions of gas loss are revisited. The escape time of the gas is compared with the cooling time, which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Mangalam

Many supermassive black holes (SMBH) of mass $10^{6\sim9}M_{\odot}$ are observed at the center of each galaxy even in the high redshift ($z\approx7$) Universe. To explain the early formation and the common existence of SMBH, we proposed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-14 Masahiro Morikawa

Direct collapse black holes (DCBHs) formed from the collapse of atomically-cooled primordial gas in the early Universe are strong candidates for the seeds of supermassive BHs. DCBHs are thought to form in atomic cooling haloes in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-16 Jarrett L. Johnson , Daniel J. Whalen , Bhaskar Agarwal , Jan-Pieter Paardekooper , Sadegh Khochfar
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