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We present predictions for the high-redshift halo-galaxy-supermassive black hole (SMBH) connection from the TRINITY model. Constrained by a comprehensive compilation of galaxy ($0\leq z \leq 10$) and SMBH datasets ($0\leq z \leq 6.5$),…

The masses of the most massive supermassive black holes (SMBHs) predicted by the M_BH-sigma and M_BH-luminosity relations appear to be in conflict. Which of the two relations is the more fundamental one remains an open question. NGC 1332 is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Stephanie P. Rusli , Jens Thomas , Peter Erwin , Roberto P. Saglia , Nina Nowak , Ralf Bender

Dense stellar environments like nuclear star clusters (NSCs) can dynamically assemble gravitational wave (GW) sources. We consider a population of single stellar mass black holes (BHs) in the inner $0.1$~pc of a NSC surrounding a $4 \times…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-10 Amanda Newton , Sanaea C. Rose , Fulya Kıroğlu , Bao-Minh Hoang , Frederic A. Rasio

A long linear structure recently discovered could be the stellar wake produced by the passage of a runaway supermassive black hole (SMBH) or, alternatively, a bulgeless edge-on galaxy. We report on new very deep HST imaging that seems to be…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-04 Mireia Montes , Jorge Sánchez Almeida , Ignacio Trujillo

We have developed a new method for post-Newtonian, high-precision integration of stellar systems containing a super-massive black hole (SMBH), splitting the forces on a particle between a dominant central force and perturbations. We used…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-04-11 Ulf Löckmann , Holger Baumgardt

The interaction of a runaway supermassive black hole (SMBH) with the circumgalactic medium (CGM) can lead to the formation of a wake of shocked gas and young stars behind it. Here we report the serendipitous discovery of an extremely narrow…

While supermassive black holes (BHs) are widely observed in the nearby and distant universe, their origin remains debated with two viable formation scenarios with light and heavy seeds. In the light seeding model, the first BHs form from…

The recent Chandra-JWST discovery of a quasar in the z = 10.1 galaxy UHZ1 reveals that accreting supermassive black holes (SMBHs) were already in place 470 million years after the Big Bang. The Chandra X-ray source detected in UHZ1 is a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-28 Priyamvada Natarajan , Fabio Pacucci , Angelo Ricarte , Akos Bogdan , Andy D. Goulding , Nico Cappelluti

The most massive galaxies in the Universe also host the largest supermassive black holes (SMBHs), with masses of $10^9 \: \mathrm{M_{\odot}}$ and above. During their hierarchical assembly, these galaxies have experienced only a few major…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-15 Lazaros Souvaitzis , Antti Rantala , Thorsten Naab

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

We generalize the Thomas-Fermi approach to galaxy structure to include self-consistently and non-linearly central supermassive black holes. This approach naturally incorporates the quantum pressure of the warm dark matter (WDM) particles…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-26 Hector J. de Vega , Norma G. Sanchez

Abridged: Supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) separated by (sub)-pc scales represent one of the latest stages of hierarchical galaxy assembly. However, many of these objects are hidden behind large columns of gas and dust at the…

Most of the galaxies harbor supermassive Black Holes (SMBH) in their center. Some of them are observed in very high redshifts. We explore the possibility that SMBH form from the coherent waves of Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) which are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-08 M. Morikawa , S. Takahashi

Intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs; $M_{BH} <2*10^{5} M_{\odot}$) in galaxy centers are cruciel for painting a coherent picture of the formation and growth of supermassive black holes (SMBHs). Using Big Data analysis, we identified 305…

4C+37.11, at z=0.055 shows two compact radio nuclei, imaged by VLBI at 7mas separation, making it the closest known resolved super-massive black hole binary (SMBHB). An important question is whether this unique object is young, caught on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Roger W. Romani , W. R. Forman , Christine Jones , S. S. Murray , A. C. Readhead , Greg B. Taylor , Robert Zavala

We present novel 3D multi-scale SPH simulations of gas-rich galaxy mergers between the most massive galaxies at $z \sim 8 - 10$, designed to scrutinize the direct collapse formation scenario for massive black hole seeds proposed in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-16 Lucio Mayer , Davide Fiacconi , Silvia Bonoli , Thomas Quinn , Rok Roskar , Sijing Shen , James Wadsley

As part of the mm-Wave Interferometric Survey of Dark Object Masses (WISDOM) project we present an estimate of the mass of the supermassive black hole (SMBH) in the nearby fast-rotating early-type galaxy NGC4429, that is barred and has a…

Many supermassive black holes (SMBH) of mass $10^{6\sim9}M_{\odot}$ are observed at the center of each galaxy even in the high redshift ($z\approx7$) Universe. To explain the early formation and the common existence of SMBH, we proposed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-14 Masahiro Morikawa

Super-Massive Black Holes reside in galactic nuclei, where they exhibit episodic bright flares due to accretion events. Taking into account relativistic effects, namely, the boosting and lensing of X-ray flares, we further examine the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-28 Vladimir Karas , Michal Bursa , Michal Dovciak , Andreas Eckart , Monika Valencia-S , Munawwar Khanduwala , Michal Zajacek

Numerical simulations have established that star clusters with densities comparable to the high redshift ($z>6$-$10$) James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) proto globular clusters may build up extremely massive (EMSs; $m_\mathrm{\star}>1000…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-28 Antti Rantala