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Accretion of matter onto central Black Holes (BHs) in galaxies liberates enormous amounts of feedback energy, which influence the formation and evolution of structures, affecting the environment from pc to Mpc scales. These BHs are usually…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-15 Paramita Barai , Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino

Observations of the most luminous quasars at high redshifts ($z > 6$) have revealed that the largest supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at those epochs tend to be substantially overmassive relative to their host galaxies compared to the local…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-01 Haojie Hu , Kohei Inayoshi , Zoltán Haiman , Wenxiu Li , Eliot Quataert , Rolf Kuiper

We propose a scenario for mass evolution of massive black holes (MBH) in galactic nuclei, to explain both the mass correlation of the supermassive black hole (SMBH) with the bulge and the down-sizing behavior of the active galactic nuclei.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-31 Hajime Inoue

We investigate the growth of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at high redshift ($z \ge 10$) from a combination of dark matter capture, black-hole mergers, and gas accretion. It has previously been shown that SMBHs can form by $z \approx 10$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-14 Andrew Imai , Grant J. Mathews , Guobao Tang , Brian Zhang

Presence of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) with mass $(10^{6}-10^{9}) M_{\odot}$ at $z = 10$ has been recently revealed by James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations. In this study we generate seeds for the above range of SMBHs in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-02 Nirmali Das , Sanjeev Kalita , Ankita Kakati

Understanding how seed black holes grow into intermediate and supermassive black holes (IMBHs and SMBHs, respectively) has important implications for the duty-cycle of active galactic nuclei (AGN), galaxy evolution, and gravitational wave…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Miroslav Micic , Kelly Holley-Bockelmann , Steinn Sigurdsson , Tom Abel

Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are observed in diverse galaxy populations across time yet a clear understanding of how they coevolve with their hosts has not been reached. Physically-motivated models of SMBH accretion and feedback vary…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-14 Bryan A. Terrazas , James Aird , Alison L. Coil

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 grow by the combination of radiation-pressure-limited…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Zoltán Haiman

Recent observations of quasars powered by supermassive black holes (SMBHs) out to z > 7 constrain both the initial seed masses and the growth of the most massive black holes (BHs) in the early universe. Here we elucidate the implications of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Jarrett L. Johnson , Daniel J. Whalen , Hui Li , Daniel E. Holz

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

Growing evidence indicate supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in a mass range of $M_{\rm BH}$$\sim 106-10^{10}M_{\odot}$ lurking in central stellar bulges of galaxies.Extensive observations reveal fairly tight power laws of $M_{\rm BH}$ versus…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yu-Qing Lou , Yan-Fei Jiang

The origin of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) remains a long-standing problem in astrophysics. Recent JWST observations reveal an unexpectedly abundant population of overmassive black holes at z>4-6, where the BH masses lie far above local…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-09 Sunmyon Chon , Shingo Hirano , Tomoaki Ishiyama , Seok-Jun Chang , Volker Springel

The origin of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) is a key open question for contemporary astrophysics and cosmology. Here we review the features of a cosmological model of SMBH formation from Pop III.1 seeds, i.e., remnants of metal-free…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-03 Jonathan C. Tan , Jasbir Singh , Vieri Cammelli , Mahsa Sanati , Maya Petkova , Devesh Nandal , Pierluigi Monaco

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

Among the emerging excess of massive, bright galaxies at Cosmic Dawn $z \gtrsim 9$ seen by the James Webb Space Telescope, several exhibit spectral features associated with active galactic nuclei (AGN). These AGN candidates suggest that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-23 James Sunseri , Zachary L. Andalman , Romain Teyssier

Understanding the formation and growth of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at high redshift represents a major challenge for theoretical models. In this work we investigate the early evolution of the first SMBHs by constraining their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-19 Alessandro Trinca , Raffaella Schneider , Rosa Valiante , Luca Graziani , Luca Zappacosta , Francesco Shankar

Understanding the formation of the supermassive black holes (SMBHs) present in the centers of galaxies is a crucial topic in modern astrophysics. Observations have detected the SMBHs with mass $M$ of $10^{9}\, \rm M_\odot$ in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-02 Chi-Hong Lin , Ke-Jung Chen , Chorng-Yuan Hwang

A positive observational proof suggests that most galaxies contain a central supermassive black hole (SMBH) with mass in the range of $10^6M_\odot$ $-$ $10^{10}M_\odot$. It is suggested that the mass of SMBHs is proportionally related to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-31 Aryan Bansal , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Hiroyuki Tashiro , Yoshiki Matsuoka

The presence of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at high redshifts ($z>5$), as revealed by James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), challenges standard black hole (BH) formation scenarios. We propose a mechanism in which non-annihilating dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-05 Sulagna Bhattacharya , Debajit Bose , Basudeb Dasgupta , Jaya Doliya , Ranjan Laha

There is overwhelming evidence for the presence of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in the centers of most nearby galaxies. The mass estimates for these remnant black holes from the stellar kinematics of local galaxies and the quasar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Priyamvada Natarajan
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