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The origin of stellar-mass black hole mergers discovered through gravitational waves is being widely debated. Mergers in the disks of active galactic nuclei (AGN) represent a promising source of origin, with possible observational clues in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-14 Hiromichi Tagawa , Shigeo S. Kimura , Zoltán Haiman , Rosalba Perna , Imre Bartos

Stellar black holes (sBHs) are widely believed to exist in the accretion disks of active galactic nuclei (AGNs). Previous studies often focus on the transient emission produced by embedded sBHs. Here, we explore the possible observational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-12 Shuying Zhou , Mouyuan Sun , Tong Liu , Jian-Min Wang , Jun-Xian Wang , Yongquan Xue

Stellar-mass BHs (sBHs) are predicted to be embedded in active galactic nuclei (AGN) disks due to gravitational drag and in-situ star formation. However, we find that due to a high gas density in an AGN disk environment, compact objects may…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-14 Hiromichi Tagawa , Shigeo S. Kimura , Zoltán Haiman , Rosalba Perna , Hidekazu Tanaka , Imre Bartos

Accretion disks in active galactic nuclei (AGN) are promising sites for mergers of stellar-mass black holes (BHs) detectable via gravitational waves (GWs). These environments facilitate both in-situ formation and dynamical capture of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-08 Hiromichi Tagawa , Zoltán Haiman , Shigeo S. Kimura , Hassen M. Yesuf , Hengxiao Guo

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

The origin of the recently discovered new class of transients, X-ray quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs), remains a puzzle. Due to their periodicity and association with active galactic nuclei (AGN), it is natural to relate these eruptions to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-30 Hiromichi Tagawa , Zoltán Haiman

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

The astrophysical origin of stellar-mass black hole (BH) mergers discovered through gravitational waves (GWs) is widely debated. Mergers in the disks of active galactic nuclei (AGN) represent promising environments for at least a fraction…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-31 Hiromichi Tagawa , Shigeo S. Kimura , Zoltán Haiman , Rosalba Perna , Imre Bartos

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

Jets launched by active galactic nuclei (AGN) are believed to play a significant role in shaping the properties of galaxies and provide an energetically viable mechanism through which galaxies can become quenched. Here we present a novel…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-30 Rosie Y. Talbot , Martin A. Bourne , Debora Sijacki

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

The gravitational wave (GW) event GW190521, likely originating from a binary black hole (BBH) merger within an active galactic nucleus (AGN) disk, is associated with the optical flare ZTF19abanrhr. The remnant BHs from BBH mergers can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-30 Zhi-Peng Ma , Kai Wang , Qingwen Wu , Jian-Min Wang

We explore the evolution of stellar mass black hole binaries (BHBs) which are formed in the self-gravitating disks of active galactic nuclei (AGN). Hardening due to three-body scattering and gaseous drag are effective mechanisms that reduce…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-03 Nicholas C. Stone , Brian D. Metzger , Zoltan Haiman

A stellar-mass black hole, embedded within the accretion disk of an active galactic nuclei (AGN), has the potential to accrete gas at a rate that can reach approximately $\sim 10^9$ times the Eddington limit. This study explores the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-13 Zifan Tang , Yang Luo , Jian-Min Wang

Compact objects are expected to exist in the accretion disks of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in active galactic nuclei (AGNs), and in the presence of such a dense environment ($\sim 10^{14}\,{\rm cm^{-3}}$), they will form a new kind of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-21 Jian-Min Wang , Jun-Rong Liu , Luis C. Ho , Pu Du

Some Seyfert galaxies are detected in high-energy gamma rays, but the mechanism and site of gamma-ray emission are unknown. Also, the origins of the cosmic high-energy neutrino and MeV gamma-ray backgrounds have been veiled in mystery since…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-14 Hiromichi Tagawa , Shigeo S. Kimura , Zoltán Haiman

Stellar-mass binary black hole (BBH) mergers occurring within the disks of active galactic nuclei (AGN) are promising sources for gravitational waves detectable by the LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA (LVK) interferometers. Some of these events have…

Recently, the direct detection of gravitational waves from black hole (BH) mergers was announced by the Advanced LIGO Collaboration. Multi-messenger counterparts of stellar-mass BH mergers are of interest, and it had been suggested that a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-29 Kohta Murase , Kazumi Kashiyama , Peter Meszaros , Ian Shoemaker , Nicholas Senno

The accretion disks of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) harboring in active galactic nuclei (AGN) are considered to be an ideal site for producing different types of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). The detectability of these GRB phenomena hidden…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-18 Hao-Hui Zhang , Jin-Ping Zhu , Yun-Wei Yu

The observable characteristics of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) embedded in the accretion disk of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are mainly determined by the jet propagation within the disk. In the massive collapsar scenario, we consider that the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-20 Yun-Feng Wei , Tong Liu , Bao-Quan Huang
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