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The disks of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) have emerged as rich environments for the production and capture of stars and the compact objects that they leave behind. These stars produce long Gamma-Ray Bursts (LGRBs) at their deaths, while…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-03 Yihan Wang , Davide Lazzati , Rosalba Perna

Both long and short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are expected to occur in the dense environments of active galactic nuclei (AGN) accretion disks. As these bursts propagate through the disks they live in, they photoionize the medium causing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-29 Michael Ray , Davide Lazzati , Rosalba Perna

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are prominent environments for stellar capture, growth and formation. These environments may catalyze stellar mergers and explosive transients, such as thermonuclear and core-collapse supernovae (SNe). SN…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-13 Evgeni Grishin , Alexey Bobrick , Ryosuke Hirai , Ilya Mandel , Hagai B. Perets

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are powered by the accretion of disks of gas onto supermassive black holes (SMBHs). Stars and stellar remnants orbiting the SMBH in the nuclear star cluster (NSC) will interact with the AGN disk. Orbiters…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-02 Gaia Fabj , Syeda S. Nasim , Freddy Caban , K. E. Saavik Ford , Barry McKernan , Jillian M. Bellovary

The accretion disks of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) harboring in active galactic nuclei (AGN) are considered to be an ideal site for producing different types of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). The detectability of these GRB phenomena hidden…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-18 Hao-Hui Zhang , Jin-Ping Zhu , Yun-Wei Yu

With the discovery of gravitational waves (GWs), Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) disks have emerged as an interesting environment for hosting a fraction of their sources. AGN disks are conducive to forming both long and short Gamma-Ray Bursts…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-07 Hoyoung D. Kang , Rosalba Perna , Davide Lazzati , Yi-Han Wang

[Abriged] Supermassive black holes (SMBH) lurk in the nuclei of most massive galaxies, perhaps in all of them. The tight observed scaling relations between SMBH masses and structural properties of their host spheroids likely indicate that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Andrea Merloni , Sebastian Heinz

The disks of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) have emerged as a rich environment for the evolution of stars and their compact remnants. The very dense medium favors rapid accretion, while torques and migration traps enhance binary formation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-07 Rosalba Perna , Hiromichi Tagawa , Zoltan Haiman , Imre Bartos

The disks of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) are expected to be populated by numerous stars, either formed in the outer regions of the disk via gravitational instability, or captured from the nearby nuclear star cluster. Regardless of their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-07 Gaia Fabj , Alexander J. Dittmann , Matteo Cantiello , Rosalba Perna , Johan Samsing

A supermassive black hole (SMBH) at the core of an active galactic nucleus (AGN) provides room for the elusive ultra-light scalar particles (ULSP) to be produced through a phenomenon called \textit{superradiance}. This phenomenon produces a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-26 Priyanka Sarmah , Himanshu Verma , Kingman Cheung , Joseph Silk

Accretion disks around supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in active galactic nuclei contain stars, stellar mass black holes, and other stellar remnants, which perturb the disk gas gravitationally. The resulting density perturbations in turn…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-16 Jillian Bellovary , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low , Barry McKernan , K. E. Saavik Ford

Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) have been found to be ubiquitous in the nuclei of early-type galaxies and of bulges of spirals. There are evidences of a tight correlation between the SMBH masses, the velocity dispersions of stars in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-23 Gianfranco De Zotti

Active galactic nucleus (AGN) disks are widely considered potential hosts for various high-energy transients, including gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). The reactivation of GRB central engines can provide additional energy to shocks formed during…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-09 Bao-Quan Huang , Tong Liu , Xiao-Yan Li , Yun-Feng Wei

Astrophysical events that occur in active galactic nucleus (AGN) disks are believed to differ significantly from the ordinary in the interstellar medium. We show that stars located in the outer region of the AGN disk would explode near the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-23 Fu-Lin Li , Yu Liu , Xiao Fan , Mao-Kai Hu , Xuan Yang , Jin-Jun Geng , Xue-Feng Wu

The observable characteristics of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) embedded in the accretion disk of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are mainly determined by the jet propagation within the disk. In the massive collapsar scenario, we consider that the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-20 Yun-Feng Wei , Tong Liu , Bao-Quan Huang

A fundamental role is attributed to supermassive black holes (SMBH), and the feedback they generate, in the evolution of galaxies. But theoretical models trying to reproduce the relation between the SMBH mass and stellar velocity dispersion…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-03-25 Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are powered by accretion disks onto supermassive black holes in the the centers of galaxies. AGN are believed to play important roles in the evolution of both supermassive black holes and their host galaxies…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-11 K. E. Saavik Ford , Barry McKernan

The brightest steady sources of radiation in the universe, active galactic nuclei (AGN), are powered by gas accretion onto a central supermassive black hole (SMBH). The large sizes and accretion rates implicated in AGN accretion disks are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-17 Marguerite Epstein-Martin , Hiromichi Tagawa , Zoltan Haiman , Rosalba Perna

We report that moderately eccentric flows around supermassive black holes (SMBHs), formed via either circumnuclear gas accretion or tidal disruption events, generate eccentricity cascades (from >0.8 to 0.2 outward), explaining…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-31 Hongping Deng

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
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