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Active galactic nuclei (AGN) with relativistic jets, powered by gas accretion onto their central supermassive black hole (SMBH), are unique laboratories for studying the physics of matter and elementary particles in extreme conditions that…

They are weak, they are small, and they are often overlooked, but they are numerous and an ubiquitous sign of accreting black holes: compact radio cores and jets in low-power AGN. Here I summarize our work concerning these radio cores and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Heino Falcke

Winds and jets are symbiotic when the accretion rate is low, according to black hole accretion theory. Both components are potentially important for active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback, but previous works typically include only jets with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-01 Minhang Guo , Suoqing Ji , Feng Yuan , Bocheng Zhu

Accretion disks surrounding supermassive black holes can potentially form stars within the self-gravitating region. These stars undergo high accretion rates because of the dense environment of the active galactic nuclei (AGN) accretion…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-22 Yang Luo , Jian-Min Wang

We study the feedback from an AGN on stellar formation within its host galaxy, mainly using one high resolution numerical simulation of the jet propagation within the interstellar medium of an early-type galaxy. In particular, we show that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 C. Tortora , V. Antonuccio-Delogu , S. Kaviraj , J. Silk , A. D. Romeo , U. Becciani

Ionization cones and relativistic jets give us one of the most large-scale example of active galactic nuclei (AGN) influence on the surrounding gas environment in galaxies and beyond. The study of ionization cones makes it possible not only…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-05 Alexei V. Moiseev , Aleksandrina A. Smirnova

It is well established that AGNs play an important role in the evolution of galaxies. These AGNs can be linked to the accretion processes onto massive black holes and past merger events in their host galaxies, which may lead to different…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-12 Xuechen Zheng , Yuze Zhang , Huub Röttgering

Compact relativistic jets in active galactic nuclei offer an effective tool for investigating the physics of nuclear regions in galaxies. The emission properties, dynamics, and evolution of jets in AGN are closely connected to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Andrei Lobanov

[abridged] Aims: We test the effects of re-orienting jets from an active galactic nucleus (AGN) on the intracluster medium in a galaxy cluster environment with short central cooling time. We investigate appearance and properties of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-19 S. Cielo , A. Babul , V. Antonuccio-Delogu , J. Silk , M. Volonteri

We present the space density evolution, from z=1.5 up to z=5.5, of the most massive (M$\geq10^9$M$_{\odot}$) black holes hosted in jetted Active Galactic Nuclei(AGNs). The analysis is based on a sample of 380 luminosity-selected…

We map the co-eval growth of galaxies and their central supermassive black holes in detail by measuring the incidence of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) in galaxies as a function of star formation rate (SFR) and redshift (to z~4). We combine…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-20 James Aird , Alison L. Coil , Antonis Georgakakis

The origin of core radio emission in radio-quiet active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is still actively debated. General relativistic magnetohydrodynamics simulations often predict the launching of moderately large-scale jets from super-Eddington…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-13 Jeremiah D. Paul , Richard M. Plotkin

That active galactic nuclei (AGN) with jets can alternately enhance as well as suppress star formation rates, explains the location and slope of radio loud AGN on the star formation rate-stellar mass plane. Here, we explore 860 type 1 and 2…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-06 D. Garofalo , G. Mountrichas

Black holes generate collimated, relativistic jets which have been observed in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), microquasars, and at the center of some galaxies (active galactic nuclei; AGN). How jet physics scales from stellar black holes in GRBs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-01-04 Rodrigo S. Nemmen , Markos Georganopoulos , Sylvain Guiriec , Eileen T. Meyer , Neil Gehrels , Rita M. Sambruna

The growth of supermassive black holes and their host galaxies are thought to be linked, but the precise nature of this symbiotic relationship is still poorly understood. Both observations and simulations of galaxy formation suggest that…

The luminous electromagnetic emission from distant active galactic nuclei (AGNs) including quasars is believed to be powered by accretion onto super-massive black holes (SMBHs). In the standard unification model for AGNs a dusty torus…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Shuang Nan Zhang

Accreting black holes produce collimated outflows, or jets, that traverse many orders of magnitude in distance, accelerate to relativistic velocities, and collimate into tight opening angles. Of these, perhaps the least understood is jet…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-25 Koushik Chatterjee , Matthew Liska , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Sera B. Markoff

We present predictions for the evolution of radio emission from Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs). We use a model that follows the evolution of Supermassive Black Hole (SMBH) masses and spins, within the latest version of the GALFORM…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Andrew J. Griffin , Cedric G. Lacey , Violeta Gonzalez-Perez , Claudia del P. Lagos

We utilize a combination of radio continuum observations and optical integral field spectroscopic (IFS) data to explore the impact of radio AGN on the evolution of their host galaxies at both global and sub-galactic scales. We construct a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-26 Gaoxiang Jin , Guinevere Kauffmann , Philip N. Best , Shravya Shenoy , Katarzyna Małek

Using the results of recent optical surveys we conclude that the {\it non}-detection of quasars down to faint magnitudes implies a significant flattening of the high redshift (z~6) optical active galactic nuclei (AGN) luminosity function…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Francesco Shankar , Smita Mathur