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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations have identified a class of compact galaxies at high redshifts ($4 \lesssim z \lesssim 11$), dubbed "little red dots" (LRDs). The supermassive black holes (SMBHs) of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-24 Borui Zhang , Wei-Xiang Feng , Haipeng An

Since the launch of James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in late 2021, our understanding of high-redshift objects has faced several upheavals. JWST has discovered much more massive galaxies and supermassive black holes (SMBH) than cosmological…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-05 David D Vaida , Ryan Jeffrey Farber

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has enabled the discovery of hundreds of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at redshifts $z\gtrsim 4-7$. A non-negligible fraction of these SMBHs are hosted in galaxies with BH-to-galaxy mass ratios…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-17 Haojie Hu , Hiroto Yanagisawa , Moka Nishigaki , Tomokazu Kiyota , Tomoaki Ishiyama , Ken Ohsuga

Very compact ($R_\mathrm{e}\lesssim1$ kpc) massive quiescent galaxies (red nuggets) are more abundant in the high-redshift Universe ($z\sim2$-$3$) than today. Their size evolution can be explained by collisionless dynamical processes in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-19 Antti Rantala , Alexander Rawlings , Thorsten Naab , Jens Thomas , Peter H. Johansson

Galaxy centers are residing places for Super Massive Black Holes (SMBHs). Galaxy mergers bring SMBHs close together to form gravitationally bound binary systems which, if able to coalesce in less than a Hubble time, would be one of the most…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Fazeel Mahmood Khan , Miguel Preto , Peter Berczik , Ingo Berentzen , Andreas Just , Rainer Spurzem

The ubiquity of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at the centers of nearby luminous galaxies can arise from the multiple mergers experienced by dark matter halos in hierarchical structure formation models, even if only a small fraction of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Kristen Menou , Zoltan Haiman , Vijay K. Narayanan

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected massive black holes (BHs) with masses of $\sim 10^{6-8}~M_\odot$ within the first billion years of the universe. One of the remarkable findings is the identification of "Little Red Dots" (LRDs), a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-17 Kohei Inayoshi

The discovery of Little Red Dots (LRDs) -- a population of compact, high-redshift, dust-reddened galaxies -- is one of the most surprising results from JWST. However, the nature of LRDs is still debated: does the near-infrared emission…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-14 Tonima Tasnim Ananna , Ákos Bogdán , Orsolya E. Kovács , Priyamvada Natarajan , Ryan C. Hickox

JWST has revealed an abundant population of compact, low-metallicity "Little Red Dots" (LRDs) at high redshift, challenging conventional scenarios in which supermassive black holes (SMBHs) grow from stellar-mass seeds. We consider a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-03 Jinhui Guo , Jia Liu , Masanori Tanaka , Xiao-Ping Wang , Huangyu Xiao

The evolution of Supermassive Black Holes (SMBHs) initially embedded in the centres of merging galaxies realised with a stellar mass function (SMF) is studied from the onset of galaxy mergers till coalescence. We performed a large set of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-18 Fazeel Mahmood Khan , Peter Berczik , Andreas Just

We examine the formation of groups of multiple supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in gas-poor galactic nuclei due to the high merger rate of galaxies at high redshifts. We calculate the relative likelihood of binary, triple, and quadruple…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Girish Kulkarni , Abraham Loeb

It has been suggested for quite a long time that galaxy mergers trigger activities of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) on the grounds of imaging observations of individual galaxies. To quantitatively examine this hypothesis, we calculate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-01-29 Yan-Rong Li , ; Jian-Min Wang , ; Ye-Fei Yuan , ; Shu Zhang

The mergers of galaxies and supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are key drivers of galaxy evolution, contributing to the growth of both galaxies and their central black holes. Current and upcoming gravitational wave (GW) detectors -- Pulsar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-28 Yun Fang , Rong-Gen Cai

Relativistic outflows (mainly observed in the radio) are a characteristic feature of both Galactic stellar mass black holes and supermassive black holes (SMBHs). Simultaneous radio and X-ray observations of Galactic sources have shown that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Churazov , S. Sazonov , R. Sunyaev , W. Forman , C. Jones , H. Boehringer

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has uncovered many compact galaxies at high redshift with broad hydrogen and helium lines, including the enigmatic population of little red dots (LRDs). The nature of these galaxies is debated and is…

By using direct N-body numerical simulations, we model the dynamical co-evolution of two supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and the surrounding stars in merging galaxies. In order to investigate how different stellar components evolve during…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-22 Shuo Li , Shiyan Zhong , Peter Berczik , Rainer Spurzem , Xian Chen , F. K. Liu

Supermassive black hole (SMBH) binary systems are unavoidable outcomes of galaxy mergers. Their dynamics encode information about their formation and growth, the composition of their host galactic nuclei, the evolution of galaxies, and the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-17 Hanxi Wang , Miguel Zumalacárregui , Bence Kocsis

Central supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are a ubiquitous feature of locally-observed galaxies, and ample evidence suggests that the growth of SMBHs and their host galaxies is closely linked. However, in the event of a merger,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-30 Laura Blecha , Thomas J. Cox , Abraham Loeb , Lars Hernquist

We propose an alternative physical interpretation and formation pathway for the recently discovered "little red dots" (LRDs). We model LRDs as super-massive stars (SMSs) surrounded by massive self-gravitating accretion discs (SMDs) that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-04 Lorenz Zwick , Christopher Tiede , Lucio Mayer

Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are common in local galactic nuclei, and SMBHs as massive as several billion solar masses already exist at redshift z=6. These earliest SMBHs may arise by the combination of Eddington-limited growth and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Zoltán Haiman
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