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Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) found in the centers of many galaxies have been recognized to play a fundamental active role in the cosmological structure formation process. In hierarchical formation scenarios, SMBHs are expected to form…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Pau Amaro-Seoane , Alberto Sesana , Loren Hoffman , Matthew Benacquista , Christoph Eichhorn , Junichiro Makino , Rainer Spurzem

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

The statistical relations between the masses of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in disk galaxies and the kinematic properties of their host galaxies are analyzed. We use the radial velocity profiles for several galaxies obtained earlier at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-15 A. V. Zasov , A. M. Cherepashchuk , I. Yu. Katkov

We calculate the linear momentum flux from merging black holes (BHs) with arbitrary masses and spin orientations, using the effective-one-body (EOB) model. This model includes an analytic description of the inspiral phase, a short merger,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jeremy D. Schnittman , Alessandra Buonanno

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…

Massive black hole (MBH) binaries, formed as a result of galaxy mergers, are expected to harden by dynamical friction and three-body stellar scatterings, until emission of gravitational waves (GWs) leads to their final coalescence.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-04 Elisa Bortolas , Alessia Gualandris , Massimo Dotti , Justin I. Read

The hierarchical galaxy formation picture suggests that super massive black holes (MBHs) observed in galactic nuclei today have grown from coalescence of massive black hole binaries (MBHB) after galaxy merging. Once the components of a MBHB…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-04-13 Long Wang , Peter Berczik , Rainer Spurzem , M. B. N. Kouwenhoven

Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are observed in diverse galaxy populations across time yet a clear understanding of how they coevolve with their hosts has not been reached. Physically-motivated models of SMBH accretion and feedback vary…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-14 Bryan A. Terrazas , James Aird , Alison L. Coil

Since many or most galaxies have central massive black holes (BHs), mergers of galaxies can form massive binary black holes (BBHs). In this paper, we study the evolution of massive BBHs in realistic galaxy models, using a generalization of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Qingjuan Yu

Galaxy mergers are believed to play an important role in triggering rapid supermassive black hole (SMBH) growth. As merging nuclei approach each other, the physical properties of the participating galaxies and the associated SMBH growth are…

While most galaxies appear to host a central supermassive black hole (SMBH), they are expected to also contain a substantial population of off-center "wandering" SMBHs naturally produced by the hierarchical merger-driven process of galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-11 Angelo Ricarte , Michael Tremmel , Priyamvada Natarajan , Thomas Quinn

We investigate how environmental effects by gas stripping alter the growth of a super massive black hole (SMBH) and its host galaxy evolution, by means of 1D hydrodynamical simulations that include both mechanical and radiative AGN feedback…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-04 Min-Su Shin , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Luca Ciotti

Environmental effects are believed to play an important yet poorly understood role in triggering accretion events onto the supermassive black holes (SMBHs) of galaxies (Active Galactic Nuclei; AGN). Massive clusters, which represent the…

We present an empirical approach for interpreting gravitational wave signals of binary black hole mergers under the assumption that the underlying black hole population is sourced by remnants of stellar evolution. Using the observed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-08 Oliver D. Elbert , James S. Bullock , Manoj Kaplinghat

We consider spherical stellar clusters with a broad mass function and a relaxation time short enough so that the segregation of massive stars toward the centre occurs before they have time to evolve off the main sequence. The relaxational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marc Freitag , M. Atakan Gürkan , Frederic A. Rasio

We present a series of simulations of the self--regulated growth of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in galaxies via three different fueling mechanisms: major mergers, minor mergers, and disk instabilities. The SMBHs in all three scenarios…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Joshua D. Younger , Philip F. Hopkins , T. J. Cox , Lars Hernquist

One of the main possible way of creating the supermassive black hole (SMBH) is a so call hierarchical merging scenario. Central SMBHs at the final phase of interacting and coalescing host-galaxies are observed as SMBH binary (SMBHB)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-25 Margarita Sobolenko , Peter Berczik , Rainer Spurzem

We derive the mass function of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) over the redshift range 0<z<2, using the latest deep luminosity and mass functions of field galaxies. Applying this mass function, combined with the bolometric luminosity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Yan-Rong Li , Jian-Min Wang , Luis C. Ho

The dynamic evolution of binary systems of supermassive black holes (SMBH) may be a key factor affecting a large fraction of the observed properties of active galactic nuclei (AGN) and galaxy evolution. Different classes of AGN can be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. P. Lobanov

Our understanding of the cosmic evolution of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) has been revolutionized by the advent of large multiwavelength extragalactic surveys, which have enabled detailed statistical studies of the host galaxies and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-16 Ryan C. Hickox , Stephanie M. LaMassa , John D. Silverman , Alexander Kolodzig