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The spin is an important but poorly constrained parameter for describing supermassive black holes (SMBHs). Using the continuity equation of SMBH number density, we explicitly obtain the mass-dependent cosmological evolution of the radiative…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Yan-Rong Li , Jian-Min Wang , Luis C. Ho

The radiative efficiency of super-Eddington accreting black holes (BHs) is explored for magnetically-arrested disks (MADs), where magnetic flux builds-up to saturation near the BH. Our three-dimensional general relativistic radiation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-23 Jonathan C. McKinney , Lixin Dai , Mark Avara

The Eddington ratio ($\lambda_{\rm Edd}$) of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) is a fundamental parameter that governs the cosmic growth of SMBHs. Although gas mass accretion onto SMBHs is sustained when they are surrounded by large amounts…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-23 Takuma Izumi

The population of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) is composed by quiescent SMBHs, such as those seen in local galaxies including the Milky Way's, and active ones, resulting in quasars and active galactic nuclei (AGN). Outside our…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-04-05 Marco Tucci , Marta Volonteri

Super-Eddington mass accretion has been suggested as an efficient mechanism to grow supermassive black holes (SMBHs). We investigate the imprint left by the radiative efficiency of the super-Eddington accretion process on the clustering of…

We run and analyze a suite of high-redshift zoom-in cosmological simulations with varying supernova feedback and supermassive black hole (SMBH) accretion prescriptions to study the joint evolution of stellar and SMBH mass in high-redshift…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-07 Ziyong Wu , Renyue Cen , Romain Teyssier

We show the significance of the super-Eddington accretion for the cosmic growth of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) with a semi-analytical model for galaxy and black hole evolution. The model explains various observed properties of galaxies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-28 Hikari Shirakata , Toshihiro Kawaguchi , Takashi Okamoto , Masahiro Nagashima , Taira Oogi

We estimate the radiative efficiency (epsilon) of individual type 1 SDSS QSOs by using their bolometric luminosities (L_{bol}) and accretion rates (\dot{M}_{\bullet,acc}), which may be related to the assembly histories and spins of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Shumei Wu , Youjun Lu , Fupeng Zhang , Ye Lu

We investigate the properties of accretion flows onto a black hole (BH) with a mass of $M_{\rm BH}$ embedded in an initially uniform gas cloud with a density of $n_{\infty}$ in order to study rapid growth of BHs in the early Universe. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-30 Eishun Takeo , Kohei Inayoshi , Ken Ohsuga , Hiroyuki R. Takahashi , Shin Mineshige

We discovered a significant anti-correlation between the mass of a supermassive black hole (SMBH), $M_{\rm BH}$, and the luminosity ratio of infrared to active galactic nuclei (AGN) Eddington luminosity, $L_{\rm IR}/L_{\rm Edd}$, over four…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Nozomu Kawakatu , Masatoshi Imanishi , Tohru Nagao

The growth of supermassive black holes (SMBH) through accretion is accompanied by the release of enormous amounts of energy which can either be radiated away, as happens in quasars, advected into the black hole, or disposed of in kinetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-08-04 Andrea Merloni

We study the distribution of accretion rates onto supermassive black holes (SMBH) in AGNs of the local Universe ($z<0.15$) based on near-infrared and hard X-ray surveys (2MASS and Swift/BAT). Using sufficiently accurate black hole mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-16 Sergey Prokhorenko , Sergey Sazonov

A scaling relation based on thin-disc accretion theory has been used by some workers to determine the mass-inflow rate onto 20 high-redshift (z) and 80 Palomar-Green quasars. Based on several assumptions, it inexplicably implies that the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-06 Yash Aggarwal

Starting from the ~50000 quasars of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey for which MgII line width and 3000 A monochromatic flux are available, we aim to study the dependence of the mass of active black holes on redshift. We focus on the observed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Marzia Labita , Roberto Decarli , Aldo Treves , Renato Falomo

The Bondi accretion rate of black holes in our and nearby galaxies Messier 87, NGC 3115, NGC 1600, and Cygnus A have been determined or constrained using Chandra or other observations. It, however, remains unknown how much mass from the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-11 Yash Aggarwal

Evidence for dust around supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in the early Universe is strongly suggested by recent observations. However, the accretion mechanism of SMBHs in dusty gas is not well understood yet. We investigate the growth of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-30 Hidenobu Yajima , Massimo Ricotti , KwangHo Park , Kazuyuki Sugimura

The supermassive black holes (SMBHs) observed at the centers of all massive galaxies are believed to have grown via luminous accretion during quasar phases in the distant past. The fraction of inflowing rest mass energy emitted as light,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-16 Frederick B. Davies , Joseph F. Hennawi , Anna-Christina Eilers

We present results of cosmological zoom-in simulations of a massive protocluster down to redshift $z\approx4$ (when the halo mass is $\approx10^{13}$ M$_\odot$) using the SWIFT code and the EAGLE galaxy formation model, focusing on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-23 Filip Huško , Cedric G. Lacey , William J. Roper , Joop Schaye , Jemima Mae Briggs , Matthieu Schaller

The comparison of the black hole mass function (BHMF) of active galactic nuclei (AGN) relics with the measured mass function of the massive black holes in galaxies provides strong evidence for the growth of massive black holes being…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xinwu Cao , Fan Li

We have performed a detailed analysis of the local super-massive black-hole (SMBH) mass function based on both kinematic and photometric data and derived an accurate analytical fit in the range 10^6 <= (M_BH/M_sun) <= 5*10^9. We find a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 F. Shankar , P. Salucci , G. L. Granato , G. De Zotti , L. Danese
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