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Supermassive black hole (SMBH) coalescences are ubiquitous in the history of the Universe and often exhibit strong accretion activities and powerful jets. These SMBH mergers are also promising candidates for future gravitational wave…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-21 Chengchao Yuan , Kohta Murase , Shigeo S. Kimura , Péter Mészáros

The search for multi-messenger signals of binary black hole (BBH) mergers is crucial to understanding the merger process of BBH and the relative astrophysical environment. Considering BBH mergers occurring in the active galactic nuclei…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-07 Zi-Hang Zhou , Kai Wang

Supermassive binary black holes in galactic centers are potential multimessenger sources in gravitational waves and electromagnetic radiation. To find such objects, isolating unique electromagnetic signatures of their accretion flow is key.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-23 Sean M. Ressler , Luciano Combi , Bart Ripperda , Elias R. Most

Supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) are a natural outcome of galaxy mergers and should form frequently in galactic nuclei. Sub-parsec binaries can be identified from their bright electromagnetic emission, e.g., Active Galactic Nuclei…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-05 Maria Charisi , Stephen R. Taylor , Jessie Runnoe , Tamara Bogdanovic , Jonathan R. Trump

As a powerful source of gravitational waves (GW), a supermassive black hole (SMBH) merger may be accompanied by a relativistic jet that leads to detectable electromagnetic (EM) emission. We model the propagation of post-merger jets inside a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-21 Chengchao Yuan , Kohta Murase , B. Theodore Zhang , Shigeo S. Kimura , Peter Mészáros

Powerful non-thermal emission has been detected coming from relativistic collimated outflows launched in the vicinity of black holes of a very wide range of masses, from few to $\sim 10^{10}$ M$_{\odot}$. At different scales along the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-10-26 V. Bosch-Ramon

Supermassive black holes are found at the centers of most galaxies and their inspiral is a natural outcome when galaxies merge. The inspiral of these systems is of utmost astrophysical importance as prodigious producers of gravitational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Carlos Palenzuela , Luis Lehner , Steven L. Liebling

Inspiraling and merging binary neutron stars are not only important source of gravitational waves, but also promising candidates for coincident electromagnetic counterparts. These systems are thought to be progenitors of short gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-03 Milton Ruiz , Stuart L. Shapiro

Stellar mass, binary black hole (BBH) mergers dominates the sources of gravitational wave (GW) events so far detected by the LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA (LVK) experiment. The origin of these BBHs is unknown, and no electromagnetic (EM) counterpart has…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-28 Juan C. Rodríguez-Ramírez , Rodrigo Nemmen , Clécio R. Bom

A population of binary stellar-mass black hole (BBH) mergers are believed to occur embedded in the accretion disk of active galactic nuclei (AGNs). In this {\em Letter}, we demonstrate that the jets from these BBH mergers can propagate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-21 Jin-Ping Zhu

Recent hydrodynamical simulations have identified a disappearing thermal X-ray signature in massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) embedded in circumbinary disks, arising from the tidal truncation and depletion of minidiscs shortly before…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-17 Luke Krauth , Jordy Davelaar

Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) have been proposed as plausible sites for hosting a sizable fraction of the binary black hole (BBH) mergers measured through gravitational waves (GWs) by the LIGO-Virgo-Kagra (LVK) experiment. These GWs could…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-20 J. C. Rodríguez-Ramírez , C. R. Bom , B. Fraga , R. Nemmen

Variability of active galactic nuclei is not well understood. One possible explanation is existence of supermassive binary black holes (SMBBH) in their centres. It is expected that major mergers are common in the Universe. It is expected…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-23 Marijana Smailagić , Edi Bon

The disk of an active galactic nucleus (AGN) is widely regarded as a prominent formation channel of binary black hole (BBH) mergers that can be detected through gravitational waves (GWs). Besides, the presence of dense environmental gas…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-20 Ken Chen , Zi-Gao Dai

Because they are likely to accrete substantial amounts of interstellar gas, merging supermassive binary black holes are expected to be strong multimessenger sources, radiating gravitational waves, photons from thermal gas, and photons from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-04 Lorenzo Ennoggi , Manuela Campanelli , Julian Krolik , Scott C. Noble , Yosef Zlochower , Maria Chiara de Simone

Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are a ubiquitous component of the nuclei of galaxies. It is normally assumed that, following the merger of two massive galaxies, a SMBH binary will form, shrink due to stellar or gas dynamical processes and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-07-14 Lucio Mayer , Stelios Kazantzidis , Piero Madau , Monica Colpi , Thomas Quinn , James Wadsley

Supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHs) are a fascinating byproduct of galaxy mergers in the hierarchical universe. In the last stage of their orbital evolution, gravitational wave radiation drives the binary inspiral and produces the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-28 Ning Jiang , Huan Yang , Tinggui Wang , Jiazheng Zhu , Zhenwei Lyu , Liming Dou , Yibo Wang , Jianguo Wang , Zhen Pan , Hui Liu , Xinwen Shu , Zhenya Zheng

Supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) are the products of frequent galaxy mergers. The coalescence of the SMBHBs is a distinct source of gravitational wave (GW) radiation. The detections of the strong GW radiation and their possible…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Shuo Li , F. K. Liu , Peter Berczik , Xian Chen , Rainer Spurzem

We present a new type of observation relating the gravitational wave emission of supermassive black hole mergers to their electromagnetic counterparts. This dual emission involves variability of a relativistic jet arising from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-12-03 M. Tápai , L. Á. Gergely , Z. Keresztes , P. J. Wiita , Gopal-Krishna , P. L. Biermann

Unlike mergers of two compact objects containing a neutron star (NS), binary black hole (BBH) mergers are not accompanied by the production of tidally disrupted material, and hence lack the most direct source of accretion to power a jet and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-24 Rosalba Perna , Davide Lazzati , Will Farr
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