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It is commonly thought that AGN feedback can break the self-similar scaling relations of galaxies, groups, and clusters. Using high-resolution 3D hydrodynamic simulations, we isolate the impact of AGN feedback on the $L_{\rm x}-T_{\rm x} $…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 M. Gaspari , F. Brighenti , P. Temi , S. Ettori

We investigate the physics that drives the gas accretion rates onto galaxies at the centers of dark matter haloes using the EAGLE suite of hydrodynamical cosmological simulations. We find that at redshifts $z{\le}2$ the accretion rate onto…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-25 Camila A. Correa , Joop Schaye , Freeke van de Voort , Alan R. Duffy , J. Stuart B. Wyithe

Aims. Recent observational studies suggest that feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGNs) may play an important role in the formation and evolution of low-mass dwarf galaxies, an issue that has received little attention from a theoretical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-27 Elena Arjona-Galvez , Arianna Di Cintio , Robert J. J. Grand

We use FLAMINGO to investigate why feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) significantly depletes gas in galaxy groups but is ineffective in clusters. We delineate three radial zones: an inner zone where AGN feedback heats halo gas via…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-19 Andrew Pontzen , Hiranya V. Peiris , Joop Schaye , Matthieu Schaller

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

We develop a new sub-grid model for the growth of supermassive Black Holes (BHs) and their associated Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) feedback in hydrodynamical cosmological simulations. Assuming that BHs are created in the early stages of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Yohan Dubois , Julien Devriendt , Adrianne Slyz , Romain Teyssier

The quenching "maintenance'" and related "cooling flow" problems are important in galaxies from Milky Way mass through clusters. We investigate this in halos with masses $\sim 10^{12}-10^{14}\,{\rm M}_{\odot}$, using non-cosmological…

Using high-resolution 3-D and 2-D (axisymmetric) hydrodynamic simulations in spherical geometry, we study the evolution of cool cluster cores heated by feedback-driven bipolar active galactic nuclei (AGN) jets. Condensation of cold gas, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-07 Deovrat Prasad , Prateek Sharma , Arif Babul

We build upon FEGA25 (Contini et al 2025), a previously introduced semi-analytic model for galaxy formation and evolution, focusing on its enhanced treatment of supernova and active galactic nucleus feedback mechanisms. In addition to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-01 Emanuele Contini , Changjo Seo , Jinsu Rhee , Seyoung Jeon , Sukyoung K. Yi

The impact of AGN feedback on the hot gas content of galaxy groups remains a key uncertainty in galaxy formation and its connection to the large scale structure of the Universe. We aim to compare the XMM-Newton Group AGN Project (X-GAP)…

We perform high-resolution (15-30 pc) adaptive mesh simulations to study the impact of momentum-driven AGN feedback in cool-core clusters, focusing in this paper on the formation of cold clumps. The feedback is jet-driven with an energy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Yuan Li , Greg L. Bryan

While in massive galaxies active galactic nuclei (AGN) feedback plays an important role, the role of AGN feedback is still under debate in dwarf galaxies. With well spatially resolved data obtained from the Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-07 Zhiyuan Zheng , Yong Shi , Fuyan Bian , Xiaoling Yu , Junfeng Wang , Jianhang Chen , Xin Li , Qiusheng Gu

The interplay between cosmic gas accretion on to galaxies and galaxy mergers drives the observed morphological diversity of galaxies. By comparing the state-of-the-art hydrodynamical cosmological simulations Horizon-AGN and Horizon-noAGN,…

Multiwavelength data indicate that the X-ray emitting plasma in the cores of galaxy clusters is not cooling catastrophically. To large extent, cooling is offset by heating due to active galactic nuclei (AGN) via jets. The cool-core…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 M. Gaspari , M. Ruszkowski , P. Sharma

Using high-resolution hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy clusters, we study the interaction between the brightest cluster galaxy, its supermassive black hole (BH) and the intracluster medium (ICM). We create initial conditions for which…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-03 Folkert S. J. Nobels , Joop Schaye , Matthieu Schaller , Yannick M. Bahé , Evgenii Chaikin

We study the effect of AGN mechanical and radiation feedback on the formation of bulge dominated galaxies via mergers of disc galaxies. The merging galaxies have mass-ratios of 1:1 to 6:1 and include pre-existing hot gaseous halos to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Ena Choi , Thorsten Naab , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Peter H. Johansson , Benjamin P. Moster

Accreting black holes can release enormous amounts of energy to their surroundings, in various forms. Such feedback may profoundly influence a black hole's environment. After briefly reviewing the possible types of feedback, I focus on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mitchell C. Begelman

We present an analysis of the growth of black holes through accretion and bulges through star formation in 33 galaxies at the centers of cooling flows. Most of these systems show evidence of cavities in the intracluster medium (ICM)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 D. A. Rafferty , B. R. McNamara , P. E. J. Nulsen , M. W. Wise

Large scale, weakly collimated outflows are very common in galaxies with large infrared luminosities. In complex systems in particular, where intense star formation (SF) coexists with an active galactic nucleus (AGN), it is not clear yet…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-21 Claudio Melioli , Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino

We show, using global 3D grid-based hydrodynamical simulations, that Ultra Fast Outflows (UFOs) from Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) result in considerable feedback of energy and momentum into the interstellar medium (ISM) of the host galaxy.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 A. Y. Wagner , M. Umemura , G. V. Bicknell