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Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) represent the growth phases of the supermassive black holes in the center of almost every galaxy. Powerful, highly ionized winds, with velocities $\sim 0.1- 0.2c$ are a common feature in X--ray spectra of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-23 Andrew King , Ken Pounds

Feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) can strongly impact the host galaxies by driving high-velocity winds that impart substantial energy and momentum to the interstellar medium (ISM). In this work, we study the impact of these winds…

In order to constrain the physical processes that regulate and downsize the AGN population, the predictions of the MOdel for the Rise of GAlaxies aNd Active nuclei (MORGANA) are compared to luminosity functions (LFs) of AGNs in the optical,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Fabio Fontanot , Pierluigi Monaco , Stefano Cristiani , Paolo Tozzi

In these proceedings I briefly: (1) review the impact (or "feedback") that active galactic nuclei (AGN) are predicted to have on their host galaxies and larger scale environment, (2) review the observational evidence for or against these…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 C. M. Harrison

Accurate modeling of active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback, especially due to relativistic jets, is crucial for understanding the cool-core problem in galaxy clusters. We present a new subgrid method to model accretion onto and feedback…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-24 Ying-He Celeste Lü , Paul M. Ricker

Feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) is crucial for regulating galaxy evolution. Motivated by observations of broad absorption line winds from rapidly accreting supermassive black holes (SMBHs), we introduce the Mistral AGN feedback…

Active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback is expected to impact the amount of cold gas in galaxies by driving strong galactic winds, by preventing external gas inflows, or by changing the thermodynamical state of the gas. We use molecular gas…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-30 Hassen M. Yesuf , Luis C. Ho

In large scale cosmological hydrodynamic simulations simplified sub-grid models for gas accretion onto black holes and AGN feedback are commonly used. Such models typically depend on various free parameters, which are not well constrained.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Lisa K. Steinborn , Klaus Dolag , Michaela Hirschmann , M. Almudena Prieto , Rhea-Silvia Remus

Recent observations have found extended multi-phase gas in a significant fraction of massive elliptical galaxies. We perform high-resolution three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations of two idealized elliptical galaxies -- one…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-07 Chaoran Wang , Yuan Li , Mateusz Ruszkowski

We use a coupled model of the formation and evolution of galaxies and black holes (BH) to study the evolution of active galactic nuclei (AGN) in a cold dark matter universe. The model predicts the BH mass, spin and mass accretion history.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 N. Fanidakis , C. M. Baugh , A. J. Benson , R. G. Bower , S. Cole , C. Done , C. S. Frenk , R. C. Hickox , C. Lacey , C. del P. Lagos

We discuss a numerical model for black hole growth and its associated feedback processes that for the first time allows cosmological simulations of structure formation to self-consistently follow the build up of the cosmic population of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-28 Debora Sijacki , Volker Springel , Tiziana Di Matteo , Lars Hernquist

The intrinsic correlations of galaxy shapes and orientations across the large-scale structure of the Universe are a known contaminant to weak gravitational lensing. They are known to be dependent on galaxy properties, such as their mass and…

Powerful winds driven by active galactic nuclei (AGN) are often invoked to play a fundamental role in the evolution of both supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and their host galaxies, quenching star formation and explaining the tight…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-25 Francesco Tombesi

Stars embedded in the accretion disks of active galactic nuclei (AGN) can accrete rapidly from their surroundings, dramatically altering their structure and evolution. However, feedback from the release of gravitational potential energy and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-28 Alexander J. Dittmann , Matteo Cantiello

Active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback from accreting supermassive black holes (SMBHs) is an essential ingredient of galaxy formation simulations. The orbital evolution of SMBHs is affected by dynamical friction that cannot be predicted…

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

Galaxy evolution is affected by competing feedback processes. Stellar feedback dominates in low-mass galaxies, while AGN feedback predominantly affects massive ones. Recent observational results reveal the dependence of black hole accretion…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-11 Kastytis Zubovas

We present simulations of galaxy formation, based on the GADGET-3 code, in which a sub-resolution model for star formation and stellar feedback is interfaced with a new model for AGN feedback. Our sub-resolution model describes a multiphase…

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are massive black holes (BHs) caught in the act of accreting gas at the centre of their host galaxies. Part of the accreting mass is converted to energy and released into the surrounding medium, in a process…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-14 Luca Sala , Elia Cenci , Pedro R. Capelo , Alessandro Lupi , Massimo Dotti

Supermassive black holes in galaxies spend majority of their lifetime in the low-luminosity regime, powered by hot accretion flow. Strong winds launched from the hot accretion flow have the potential to play an important role in active…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-04 Fangzheng Shi , Feng Yuan , Zhiyuan Li , Zhao Su , Suoqing Ji