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Supermassive black holes at the centre of galactic nuclei mostly grow in mass through gas accretion over cosmic time. This process also modifies the angular momentum (or spin) of black holes, both in magnitude and in orientation. Despite…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-25 Davide Fiacconi , Debora Sijacki , J. E. Pringle

Gravitational-wave observations of massive, rapidly spinning binary black holes mergers provide increasing evidence for the dynamical origin of some mergers. Previous studies have interpreted the mergers with primary mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-10 Hui Tong , Thomas A. Callister , Maya Fishbach , Eric Thrane , Fabio Antonini , Simon Stevenson , Isobel M. Romero-Shaw , Fani Dosopoulou

Motivated by the possibility of observing gravitational waves from merging black holes whose spins are nearly extremal (i.e., 1 in dimensionless units), we present numerical waveforms from simulations of merging black holes with the highest…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-01-30 Geoffrey Lovelace , Michael Boyle , Mark A. Scheel , Bela Szilagyi

The collapse of astrophysically significant bodies generates, under suitable conditions, black holes. Since one expects the generator of the black hole to be a rotating body, the black hole will also rotate. The existence of inner…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-30 Ramón Torres

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

NBody realizations of axisymmetric collisional galaxy cores (e.g. M32, M33, NGC205, Milky Way) with embedded growing black holes are presented. Stars which approach the disruption sphere are disrupted and accreted to the black hole. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 Jose Fiestas , Oliver Porth , Peter Berczik , Rainer Spurzem

We produce the first numerical relativity binary black hole gravitational waveforms in a higher-curvature theory beyond general relativity. In particular, we study head-on collisions of binary black holes in order-reduced dynamical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-20 Maria Okounkova , Leo C. Stein , Mark A. Scheel , Saul A. Teukolsky

Recent observations of compact binary systems have provided evidence for black holes with masses below standard expectations. When paired with neutron stars (NSs), such low-mass black holes (BHs) have the potential to be detected by future…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-24 S. Gomez Lopez , B. Giacomazzo , F. Pannarale

We explore several correlations between various large-scale galaxy properties, particularly total globular cluster population (N_GCS), the central black hole mass (M_BH), velocity dispersion (nominally sigma_e), and bulge mass (M_dyn). Our…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Gretchen L. H. Harris , Gregory B. Poole , William E. Harris

We intend to develop part of the theoretical tools needed for the detection of gravitational waves coming from the capture of a compact object, 1-100 solar masses, by a Supermassive Black Hole, up to a 10 billion solar masses, located at…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-09-11 Alessandro Spallicci , Patxi Ritter , Sylvain Jubertie , Stèphane Cordier , Sofiane Aoudia

For a sample of nine Galactic globular clusters we measured the inner kinematic profiles with integral-field spectroscopy that we combined with existing outer kinematic measurements and HST luminosity profiles. With this information we are…

We discuss how the centres of galaxy clusters evolve in time, showing the results of a series of direct N-body simulations. In particular, we followed the evolution of a galaxy cluster with a mass $M_{clus} \simeq 10^{14} $M$_{\odot}$ in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-17 Manuel Arca Sedda , Martina Donnari , Marco Merafina

We incorporate a model for black hole growth during galaxy mergers into the semi-analytical galaxy formation model based on Lambda-CDM proposed by Baugh et al. (2005). Our black hole model has one free parameter, which we set by matching…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Rowena K. Malbon , C. M. Baugh , C. S. Frenk , C. G. Lacey

We perform 3D numerical simulations for merger of equal mass binary neutron stars in full general relativity preparing irrotational binary neutron stars in a quasiequilibrium state as initial conditions. Simulations have been carried out…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Masaru Shibata , Koji Uryu

Many, if not all, galaxies host massive compact objects at their centers. They are present as singularities (super massive black holes) or high density star clusters (nuclear tar clusters). In some cases they coexist, and interact more or…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-13 R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta

To explain both the dynamics of a globular cluster and its production of gravitational waves from coalescing binary black holes, it is necessary to understand its population of dynamically-formed (or, `three-body') binaries. We provide a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-06 Daniel Marín Pina , Mark Gieles

The Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) are gradually involved into consideration as the phenomenon having reliable basis. We discuss here the possibility of their agglomeration into clusters that may have several prominent observable features.…

We present the result of large-scale N-body simulations of the stellar-dynamical evolution of a massive black-hole binary at the center of a spherical galaxy. We focus on the dependence of the hardening rate on the relaxation timescale of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Junichiro Makino , Yoko Funato

Current stellar evolution models predict a dearth of black holes (BHs) with masses $\gtrsim 50$ M$_\odot$ and $\lesssim 5$ M$_\odot$, and intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs; $\sim10^2- 10^5$ M$_\odot$) have not yet been detected beyond…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-09 Giacomo Fragione , Joseph Silk

The total feedback energy injected into hot gas in galaxy clusters by central black holes can be estimated by comparing the potential energy of observed cluster gas profiles with the potential energy of non-radiating, feedback-free hot gas…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 William G. Mathews , Fulai Guo