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The most general bound binary black hole (BBH) system has an eccentric orbit and precessing spins. The detection of such a system with significant eccentricity close to the merger would be a clear signature of dynamical formation. In order…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-12 Khun Sang Phukon , Nathan K. Johnson-McDaniel , Amitesh Singh , Anuradha Gupta

Both theoretical models and observational evidence indicate that jets and/or outflows driven by central active supermassive black holes exert a significant feedback effect on the overall properties of their host galaxies. Theoretical models…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-06 Yongyun Chen , Qiusheng Gu , Junhui Fan , Xiaotong Guo , Xiaoling Yu , Nan Ding , Dingrong Xiong

We have constructed self-similar models of a time-dependent accretion disk in both sub and super-Eddington phases with wind outflows for tidal disruption events (TDEs). The physical input parameters are the black hole (BH) mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-21 T. Mageshwaran , A. Mangalam

We perform hydrodynamical simulations of major galaxy mergers using new methods for calculating the growth of massive black holes (BH) in galactic nuclei and their impact on the surrounding galaxy. We model BH growth by including a subgrid…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Jackson DeBuhr , Eliot Quataert , Chung-Pei Ma , Philip Hopkins

Warped accretion disks have attracted intensive attention because of their critical role on shaping the spin of supermassive massive black holes (SMBHs) through the Bardeen-Petterson effect, a general relativistic effect that leads to final…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-24 Yan-Rong Li , Jian-Min Wang , Cheng Cheng , Jie Qiu

Understanding the growth of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) requires observational constraints on how their angular momentum (or spin) varies with mass, since the relative importance of coherent accretion, chaotic accretion, and mergers…

The co-evolution of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and their host galaxies remains one of the central open questions in cosmology, rooted in the coupling between accretion, feedback, and the multi-scale physics that links the event…

Compact radio cores associated with relativistic jets are often observed in both active galactic nuclei and X-ray binaries. Their radiative properties follow some general scaling laws which primarily depend on their masses and accretion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-07 Monika Moscibrodzka , Heino Falcke , Scott Noble

To what extent can the one-dimensional slim disk model reproduce the multi-dimensional results of global radiation-hydrodynamic simulations of super-Eddington accretion? With this question in mind, we perform systematic simulation study of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-07 Takaaki Kitaki , Shin Mineshige , Ken Ohsuga , Tomohisa Kawashima

Observations by JWST have confirmed the presence of supermassive black holes (BHs) at redshifts $z\gtrsim10$, lending support to scenarios in which BHs experience rapid growth through intense gas accretion. Here we investigate the growth of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-24 Jake Hassan , Rosalba Perna , Matteo Cantiello , Philip Armitage , Mitchell Begelman , Taeho Ryu

We consider the evolution of a supermassive black hole binary (SMBHB) surrounded by a retrograde accretion disk. Assuming the disk is exactly in the binary plane and transfers energy and angular momentum to the binary via direct gas…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Jeremy D. Schnittman , Julian H. Krolik

The spin of a newly formed black hole (BH) at the center of a massive star evolves from its natal value due to two competing processes: accretion of gas angular momentum that increases the spin, and extraction of BH angular momentum by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-16 Jonatan Jacquemin-Ide , Ore Gottlieb , Beverly Lowell , Alexander Tchekhovskoy

The spin angular momentum S of a supermassive black hole (SBH) precesses due to torques from orbiting stars, and the stellar orbits precess due to dragging of inertial frames by the spinning hole. We solve the coupled post-Newtonian…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-11-20 David Merritt , Eugene Vasiliev

Understanding the physics and geometry of accretion and ejection around super massive black holes (SMBHs) is important to understand the evolution of active galactic nuclei (AGN) and therefore of the large scale structures of the Universe.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-11 Margherita Giustini , Daniel Proga

In theoretical models of galaxy evolution, black hole feedback is a necessary ingredient in order to explain the observed exponential decline in number density of massive galaxies. Most contemporary black hole feedback models in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-07 Douglas Rennehan , Arif Babul , Belaid Moa , Romeel Davé

Due to the non-axisymmetric potential of the central bar, barred spiral galaxies form, in addition to their characteristic arms and bar, a variety of structures within the thin gas disk, like nuclear rings, inner spirals and dust-lanes.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-27 Manuel Jung , Tobias F. Illenseer , Wolfgang J. Duschl

We investigate the effect of conductive heating of the gas surrounding a geometrically thick accretion disk on the growth of a black hole at high redshift. If a black hole is accreting the surrounding gas at a super-Eddington rate, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-17 Norita Kawanaka , Kazunori Kohri

In order to precisely evaluate the impacts by super-Eddington accretors to their environments, it is essential to assure a large enough simulation box and long computational time to avoid any artefacts from numerical settings as much as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-12 Shogo Yoshioka , Shin Mineshige , Ken Ohsuga , Tomohisa Kawashima , Takaaki Kitaki

Observational constraints on the birth and early evolution of massive black holes (BHs) come from two extreme regimes. At high redshift, quasars signal the rapid growth of billion-solar-mass BHs and indicate that these objects began…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-15 Amy Reines , Andrea Comastri

Massive black holes in galactic nuclei vary their mass M and spin vector J due to accretion. In this study we relax, for the first time, the assumption that accretion can be either chaotic, i.e. when the accretion episodes are randomly and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 M. Dotti , M. Colpi , S. Pallini , A. Perego , M. Volonteri