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Merging of stellar-mass binary black holes (BBH) could take place within the accretion disk of active galactic nuclei (AGN). The resulting BH remnant is likely to accrete the disk gas at a super-Eddington rate, launching a fast,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-15 Zhi-Peng Ma , Kai Wang

Galactic nuclei are promising sites for stellar origin black hole (BH) mergers, as part of merger hierarchies in deep potential wells. We show that binary black hole (BBH) merger rates in active galactic nuclei (AGN) should always exceed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-07 K. E. Saavik Ford , Barry McKernan

In this study of the `Resolving supermAssive Black hole Binaries In galacTic hydrodynamical Simulations' (RABBITS) series, we investigate the orbital evolution of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) during galaxy mergers. We simulate both disc…

Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) consist of a central supermassive black hole (SMBH) embedded in a region with both high gas and stellar densities: the gas is present as a thin accretion disc that fuels the central SMBH, while the stars form a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-18 Yubo Su , Connar Rowan , Mor Rozner

The disks of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) provide a natural environment where stellar-mass black holes (BHs) can dynamically pair, undergo repeated interactions, and eventually merge. It is commonly assumed that gas accretion will both…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-25 Gaia Fabj , Christopher Tiede , Connar Rowan , Martin Pessah , Johan Samsing

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

The presence of dual active galactic nuclei (AGN) on scales of a few tens of kpc can be used to study merger-induced accretion on supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and offer insights about SMBH mergers, using dual AGNs as merger precursors.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-25 Vida Saeedzadeh , Arif Babul , Suvodip Mukherjee , Michael Tremmel , Thomas R. Quinn , Lucio Mayer

We investigate how AGN disk turbulence affects the orbital dynamics of a stellar-mass black hole (BH) initially located at a migration trap, focusing on the long-term behavior of eccentricity and inclination in the quasi-embedded regime. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-05 Alessandro Alberto Trani , Pierfrancesco Di Cintio

Binary systems are ubiquitous and their formation requires two-body interaction and dissipation. In gaseous media, interactions between two initially unbound objects could result in gas-assisted binary formation, induced by a loss of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-26 Mor Rozner , Aleksey Generozov , Hagai B. Perets

Motivated by observational searches for massive black hole (MBH) pairs at kiloparsec separations we develop a semi-analytic model to describe their orbital evolution under the influence of stellar and gaseous dynamical friction (DF). The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-05 Kunyang Li , Tamara Bogdanovic , David R. Ballantyne

Binary black holes embedded within the accretion disks that fuel active galactic nuclei (AGN) are promising progenitors for the source of gravitational wave events detected by LIGO/VIRGO. Several recent studies have shown that when these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-19 Josh Calcino , Adam M. Dempsey , Alexander J. Dittmann , Hui Li

(Abridged) We investigate two modes of coupling the feedback energy from a central AGN to the neighboring gas in galaxy simulations: kinetic - velocity boost, and thermal - heating. We formulate kinetic feedback models for energy-driven…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Paramita Barai , Matteo Viel , Giuseppe Murante , Massimo Gaspari , Stefano Borgani

The possible formation mechanisms of massive close binary black holes (BHs) that can merge in the Hubble time to produce powerful gravitational wave bursts detected during advanced LIGO O1 and O2 science runs include the evolution from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-10 Konstantin Postnov , Alexander Kuranov

We present direct N-body simulations, carried out with Nbody6++GPU, of young and compact low metallicity star clusters with $1.1\times 10^5$ stars, a velocity dispersion of $\sim$ 10 $\mathrm{km\,s^{-1}}$, a half mass radius $R_h=0.6$ pc,…

We study the accretion flows from the circumbinary disks onto the supermassive binary black holes in a subparsec scale of the galactic center, using a smoothed particles hydrodynamics (SPH) code. Simulation models are presented in four…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Kimitake Hayasaki , Shin Mineshige , Hiroshi Sudou

There is compelling evidence that black holes (BHs) in cluster centers vigorously interact with their surroundings, indicating that any realistic model of cluster formation needs to account for these processes. Here we use high-resolution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Ewald Puchwein , Debora Sijacki , Volker Springel

We develop a new sub-grid model for the growth of supermassive Black Holes (BHs) and their associated Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) feedback in hydrodynamical cosmological simulations. Assuming that BHs are created in the early stages of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Yohan Dubois , Julien Devriendt , Adrianne Slyz , Romain Teyssier

We present our latest results for simulation for merger of black hole (BH)-neutron star (NS) binaries in full general relativity which is performed preparing a quasicircular state as initial condition. The BH is modeled by a moving puncture…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Masaru Shibata , Koji Uryu

The Gaia mission and its follow-up observations have discovered a few candidates of non-interacting single black holes (BHs) and visible stars, Gaia BH1, BH2, and BH3, collectively called ``astrometric BH binaries''. This paper investigates…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-26 Ataru Tanikawa , Long Wang , Michiko S. Fujii , Alessandro A. Trani , Toshinori Hayashi , Yasushi Suto

We present the results of 2D, moving-mesh, viscous hydrodynamical simulations of an accretion disc around a merging supermassive black hole binary (SMBHB). The simulation is pseudo-Newtonian, with the BHs modeled as point masses with a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-14 Yike Tang , Zoltán Haiman , Andrew MacFadyen
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