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Most common formation channels of stellar mass black hole (BH) binaries like the ones observed by LIGO, often assume they are assembled from the direct collapse of massive pre-supernova stars. However, it is still unclear whether the final…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-11 Aldo Batta , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

We use order of magnitude estimates and observational constraints to argue that feedback from relativistic cosmic rays (CRs) produced by massive black holes is likely to have a particularly large effect at radii of order the virial radius…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-30 Eliot Quataert , Philip F. Hopkins

Understanding the connection between galaxy properties and their central massive black holes (MBHs) is key to unveiling their co-evolution. We use the ${\tt L{-}Galaxies{-} \it BH}$ semi-analytical model and the ${\tt Millennium}$ suite of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-22 David Izquierdo-Villalba

We present three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations showing the effect of kinetic and radiative AGN feedback on a model galaxy representing a massive quiescent low-redshift early-type galaxy of $M_* = 8.41\times 10^{10} M_\odot$,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-04-10 Maximilian Eisenreich , Thorsten Naab , Ena Choi , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Eric Emsellem

There is compelling evidence that black holes (BHs) in cluster centers vigorously interact with their surroundings, indicating that any realistic model of cluster formation needs to account for these processes. Here we use high-resolution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Ewald Puchwein , Debora Sijacki , Volker Springel

Central supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are a ubiquitous feature of locally-observed galaxies, and ample evidence suggests that the growth of SMBHs and their host galaxies is closely linked. However, in the event of a merger,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-30 Laura Blecha , Thomas J. Cox , Abraham Loeb , Lars Hernquist

Recently, rapid observational and theoretical progress has established that black holes (BHs) play a decisive role in the formation and evolution of individual galaxies as well as galaxy groups and clusters. In particular, there is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-20 Ewald Puchwein , Debora Sijacki , Volker Springel

Supermassive black holes (BH) at the centres of galaxies can rapidly change their mass and spin by gas accretion and mergers. Using hydrodynamical cosmological simulations, with prescriptions for BH growth and feedback from Active Galactic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Yohan Dubois , Marta Volonteri , Joseph Silk

We study the population of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and their effects on massive central galaxies in the IllustrisTNG cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation. The employed model for SMBH growth and feedback…

We use 1 kpc resolution cosmological AMR simulations of a Virgo-like galaxy cluster to investigate the effect of feedback from supermassive black holes (SMBH) on the mass distribution of dark matter, gas and stars. We compared three…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Romain Teyssier , Ben Moore , Davide Martizzi , Yohan Dubois , Lucio Mayer

Recently, relations connecting the SMBH mass of central galaxies and global properties of the hosting cluster, such as temperature and mass, were observed. We investigate the correlation between SMBH mass and cluster mass and temperature,…

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,…

We use the Simba suite of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations to investigate the importance of various stellar and AGN feedback mechanisms in partitioning the cosmic baryons between the intergalactic (IGM) and circumgalactic (CGM) media…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-06 Ilya S. Khrykin , Daniele Sorini , Khee-Gan Lee , Romeel Davé

We investigate the growth of central supermassive black holes in galaxies, aiming to distinguish between gas accretion versus BH merger-driven growth modes. By performing and analysing cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of $(50 ~ {\rm…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-06 Paramita Barai

We introduce massive black holes (BHs) in the Feedback In Realistic Environments project and perform high-resolution cosmological hydrodynamic simulations of quasar-mass halos ($M_{\rm halo}(z=2) \approx 10^{12.5}\,\rm{M}_{\odot}$) down to…

The properties of quasar-host galaxies might be determined by the growth and feedback of their supermassive (SMBH, $10^{8-10}$ M$_{\odot}$) black holes. We investigate such connection with a suite of cosmological simulations of massive…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-16 Milena Valentini , Simona Gallerani , Andrea Ferrara

Using our measurements of the H$\alpha$ emission line flux originating in the cool (T $\sim10^4$ K) gas that populates the halos of galaxies, we build a joint model to describe mass of the cool circumgalactic medium (CGM) as a function of…

We use cosmological hydrodynamical simulations to investigate the role of feedback from accreting black holes on the evolution of sizes, compactness, stellar core density and specific star-formation of massive galaxies with stellar masses…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-24 Ena Choi , Rachel S. Somerville , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Thorsten Naab , Michaela Hirschmann

We employ cosmological hydrodynamical simulations to investigate models in which the supermassive black holes (BHs) powering luminous z ~ 6 QSOs grow from massive seeds. We simulate at high resolution 18 fields sampling regions with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Tiago Costa , Debora Sijacki , Michele Trenti , Martin G. Haehnelt

Here we analyse the growth and feedback effects of massive black holes (MBHs) in the SEEDZ simulations. The most massive black holes grow to masses of $\sim10^{6}$ M$_\odot$ by $z=12.5$ during short bursts of super-Eddington accretion,…