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The main idea of our research is to estimate the physical coalescence time of the double supermassive black hole (SMBH) system in the centre of NGC 6240 based on the X-ray observations from the Chandra space observatory. The spectra of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-11 M. Sobolenko , O. Kompaniiets , P. Berczik , V. Marchenko , A. Vasylenko , E. Fedorova , B. Shukirgaliyev

One of the main possible way of creating the supermassive black hole (SMBH) is a so call hierarchical merging scenario. Central SMBHs at the final phase of interacting and coalescing host-galaxies are observed as SMBH binary (SMBHB)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-25 Margarita Sobolenko , Peter Berczik , Rainer Spurzem

We present the result of $N$-body simulations of dynamical evolution of triple massive blackhole (BH) systems in galactic nuclei. We found that in most cases two of the three BHs merge through gravitational wave (GW) radiation in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Masaki Iwasawa , Yoko Funato , Junichiro Makino

The hierarchical nature of galaxy formation in the $\Lambda$CDM framework often leads to multiple supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in the galactic nuclei. The timescale over which galaxies merge, plays a crucial role in shaping the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-27 Navonil Saha , Peter Berczik , Andreas Just , Margarita Sobolenko

We study the dynamics of a binary orbiting a supermassive black hole (SMBH), focusing on both binary scattering in unbound orbits and eccentric von Zeipel-Lidov-Kozai (vZLK) oscillations in bound orbits. The motion is described in a local…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-27 Kei-ichi Maeda , Hirotada Okawa

This paper studies the formation and evolution of binary supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in rotating galactic nuclei, focusing on the role of stellar dynamics. We present the first N-body simulations that follow the evolution of the SMBHs…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Ingo Berentzen , Miguel Preto , Peter Berczik , David Merritt , Rainer Spurzem

For a pair of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in the remnant of a dual galaxy merger, well-known models exist to describe their dynamical evolution until the final coalescence accompanied by the emission of a low-frequency gravitational…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-04 Hauke Koehn , Andreas Just , Peter Berczik , Michael Tremmel

In this paper, we explore the mechanisms that regulate the formation and evolution of stellar black hole binaries (BHBs) around supermassive black holes (SMBHs). We show that dynamical interactions can efficiently drive "in-situ" BHB…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-17 Manuel Arca Sedda

We study the dynamics of a binary system orbiting a rotating supermassive black hole (SMBH). Using Fermi-Walker transport, we construct a local inertial reference frame in the Kerr spacetime and set up a Newtonian binary system. Assuming…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-20 Kei-ichi Maeda , Hirotada Okawa

Although supermassive black holes (SMBHs) correlate well with their host galaxies, there is an emerging view that outliers exist. Henize 2-10, NGC 4889, and NGC1277 are examples of SMBHs at least an order of magnitude more massive than…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Fazeel Khan , Kelly Holley-Bockelmann , Peter Berczik

Binary supermassive black holes (SMBH) are expected to form naturally during galaxy mergers. After the dynamical friction phase, when the two SMBHs become gravitationally bound to each other, and a brief stage of initial rapid hardening,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-30 Kirill Lezhnin , Eugene Vasiliev

Using few-body simulations, we investigate the evolution of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in galaxies ($M_{\star}=10^{10}-10^{12}{\rm M}_{\odot}$ at $z=0$) at $0<z<4$. Following galaxy merger trees from the Millennium simulation, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-29 Taeho Ryu , Rosalba Perna , Zoltán Haiman , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Nicholas C. Stone

[Abridged] In galactic nuclei with sufficiently short relaxation times, binary supermassive black holes can evolve beyond their stalling radii via continued interaction with stars. We study this "collisional" evolutionary regime using both…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 David Merritt , Seppo Mikkola , Andras Szell

We present here a self-consistent cosmological zoom-in simulation of a triple supermassive black hole (SMBH) system forming in a complex multiple galaxy merger. The simulation is run with an updated version of our code KETJU, which is able…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-07 Matias Mannerkoski , Peter H. Johansson , Antti Rantala , Thorsten Naab , Shihong Liao

Theoretical models of the evolution of supermassive black hole (SMBH) pairs in post-merger remnant galaxies are necessary to motivate observational searches for dual active galactic nuclei (AGN) and gravitational wave sources. Studies have…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-02 Sena Ghobadi , David Ballantyne , Tamara Bogdanovic

Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) play an important role in galaxy evolution. Binary and triple SMBHs can form after galaxy mergers. A third SMBH may accelerate the SMBH merging process, possibly through the Kozai mechanism. We use N -body…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-29 Wei Hao , M. B. N. Kouwenhoven , Rainer Spurzem , Pau Amaro Seoane , Rosemary A. Mardling , Xiuming Xu

Binary-black-hole (BBH) mergers can take place close to a supermassive black hole (SMBH) while being in a bound orbit around the SMBH. In this paper, we study such bound triple systems and show that including the strong gravity effects of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-05 Filippo Camilloni , Gianluca Grignani , Troels Harmark , Marta Orselli , Daniele Pica

Nuclear star clusters surrounding supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in galactic nuclei contain large numbers of stars, black holes (BHs) and neutron stars (NSs), a fraction of which are likely to form binaries. These binaries were suggested…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-19 Giacomo Fragione , Evgeni Grishin , Nathan W. C. Leigh , Hagai. B. Perets , Rosalba Perna

We model for the first time the complete orbital evolution of a pair of Supermassive Black Holes (SMBHs) in a 1:10 galaxy merger of two disk dominated gas-rich galaxies, from the stage prior to the formation of the binary up to the onset of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Fazeel Mahmood Khan , Ingo Berentzen , Peter Berczik , Andreas Just , Lucio Mayer , Keigo Nitadori , Simone Callegari

Triple stars and compact objects are ubiquitously observed in nature. Their long-term evolution is complex; in particular, the von-Zeipel-Lidov-Kozai (ZLK) mechanism can potentially lead to highly eccentric encounters of the inner binary.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-03 Abhi Mangipudi , Evgeni Grishin , Alessandro A. Trani , Ilya Mandel
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