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We derive the growth of SMBHs relative to the stellar content of their host galaxy predicted under the assumption of BH accretion triggered by galaxy encounters occurring during their merging histories. We show that, within this framework,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Alessandra Lamastra , Nicola Menci , Roberto Maiolino , Fabrizio Fiore , Andrea Merloni

Using results from structural analysis of a sample of nearly 1000 local galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, we estimate how the mass in central black holes is distributed amongst elliptical galaxies, classical bulges and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Dimitri A. Gadotti , Guinevere Kauffmann

It is shown that a mechanism of PBH formation from high-baryon bubbles with log-normal mass spectrum naturally leads to the central mass of the PBH distribution close to ten solar masses independently of the model details. This result is in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-31 Alexander Dolgov , Konstantin Postnov

The spins of merging binary black holes offer insights into their formation history. Recently it has been argued that in isolated binary evolution of two massive stars the firstborn black hole is slowly rotating, whilst the progenitor of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-26 Floor S. Broekgaarden , Simon Stevenson , Eric Thrane

In this Paper we consider a problem of formation and evolution of orbital parameters of a binary primordial black hole (PBH) due to gravitational interaction with clustering cold dark matter (CDM). Mass and initial separation have values,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-22 Sergey Pilipenko , Maxim Tkachev , Pavel Ivanov

Surveys with the Hubble Space Telescope find supermassive black holes (BHs) of 10**6 to 10**9.5 solar masses in every galaxy that has an elliptical-galaxy-like "bulge" component. BHs appear to be standard equipment in galaxy bulges. At the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 John Kormendy

The black hole (BH)-bulge correlations have greatly influenced the last decade of effort to understand galaxy evolution. Current knowledge of these correlations is limited predominantly to high BH masses (M_BH> 10^8 M_sun) that can be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 J. E. Greene , C. Y. Peng , M. Kim , C. Y. Kuo , J. A. Braatz , C. M. V. Impellizzeri , J. J. Condon , K. Y. Lo , C. Henkel , M. J. Reid

The observations of gravitational waves (GWs) have revealed the existence of black holes (BHs) above $30M_\odot$. A variety of scenarios have been proposed as their origin. Among the scenarios, we consider the population III (Pop~III) star…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-01 Masaki Iwaya , Tomoya Kinugawa , Hideyuki Tagoshi

It is still unknown how the BBH evolves after its semi-major axis reached to the sub-parsec/parsec scale where the dynamical friction with the neighboring stars is no longer effective (the so-called the final parsec problem). In this paper,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Kimitake Hayasaki

We analyze the dynamical evolution of binary stars that interact with a static background of single stars in the environment of a massive black hole (MBH). All stars are considered to be single mass, Newtonian point particles. We follow the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-03 Clovis Hopman

In this paper, globular star clusters which contain a sub-system of stellar-mass black holes (BH) are investigated. This is done by considering two-component models, as these are the simplest approximation of more realistic multi-mass…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Philip G. Breen , Douglas C. Heggie

Motivated by the observed correlation between black hole masses $\mbh$ and the velocity dispersion $\sigma$ of host galaxies, we develop a theoretical model of black hole formation in galactic bulges (this paper generalizes an earlier ApJ…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Fred C. Adams , David S. Graff , Manasse Mbonye , Douglas O. Richstone

In this paper, we explore the establishment and evolution of the empirical correlation between black hole mass and velocity dispersion with redshift. We track the growth and accretion history of massive black holes starting from high…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Marta Volonteri , Priyamvada Natarajan

We describe a correlation between the mass M_BH of a galaxy's central black hole and the luminosity-weighted line-of-sight velocity dispersion sigma_e within the half-light radius. The result is based on a sample of 26 galaxies, including…

This paper reviews the subject of intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) with masses between those of "stellar-mass" and "super-massive" black holes. The existence of IMBHs is a real possibility: they might plausibly have formed as remnants…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Roeland P. van der Marel

The connection between the binary black hole (BBH) mergers observed by LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) and their stellar progenitors remains uncertain. Specifically, the fraction $\epsilon$ of stellar mass that ends up in BBH mergers and the delay…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-27 Aryanna Schiebelbein-Zwack , Maya Fishbach

The origin of supermassive black holes (SMBH) in galaxy centers still remains uncertain. There are two possible ways of their formation - from massive ($10^5 - 10^6 M_{\odot}$) and low-mass ($100 M_{\odot}$) BH nuclei. The latter scenario…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-28 Victoria Toptun , Igor Chilingarian , Kirill Grishin , Ivan Katkov , Ivan Zolotukhin , Vladimir Goradzhanov , Mariia Demianenko , Ivan Kuzmun

A positive observational proof suggests that most galaxies contain a central supermassive black hole (SMBH) with mass in the range of $10^6M_\odot$ $-$ $10^{10}M_\odot$. It is suggested that the mass of SMBHs is proportionally related to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-31 Aryan Bansal , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Hiroyuki Tashiro , Yoshiki Matsuoka

The possibility that the masses of supermassive black holes (SBHs) correlate with the total gravitational mass of their host galaxy, or the mass of the dark matter halo in which they presumably formed, is investigated using a sample of 16…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 Laura Ferrarese

The first LIGO-Virgo detections have confirmed the existence of massive black holes (BHs), with mass $30-40$ M$_\odot$. Such BHs might originate from massive metal-poor stars ($Z<0.3$ Z$_\odot$) or from gravitational instabilities in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-31 Michela Mapelli