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We develop a simple physical model to describe the dynamics of a massive point-like object, such as a black hole, near the center of a dense stellar system. It is shown that the total force on this body can be separated into two independent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Pinaki Chatterjee , Lars Hernquist , Abraham Loeb

Leveraging the semi-analytic method, we compute halo spins for a substantial sample of HI-bearing galaxies observed in the Arecibo Legacy Fast Alfa Survey. Our statistical analysis reveals a correlation between halo spin and environment,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-10 Zichen Hua , Yu Rong , Huijie Hu

Nuclear star clusters that surround supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in galactic nuclei are thought to contain large numbers of black holes (BHs) and neutron stars (NSs), a fraction of which form binaries and could merge by Kozai-Lidov…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-02 Giacomo Fragione , Nathan Leigh , Rosalba Perna

The spin-orbit tilt angles $\theta_{1(2)}$ of merging stellar-mass black holes provide key insights into their astrophysical origin. Non-parametric population modelling of The LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA Collaborations (2025a, arXiv:2508.18083)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-01 Jakob Stegmann , Fabio Antonini , Aleksandra Olejak , Sylvia Biscoveanu , Vivien Raymond , Stefano Rinaldi , Elizabeth Flanagan

We investigate the orbital eccentricity evolution of supermassive black hole binaries within galactic environments. We analyze the dynamics in triaxial merger remnants and subsequent interactions with geometrically thick nuclear discs. We…

A new so-called `gravitational loss-cone instability' in stellar systems has recently been investigated theoretically in the framework of linear perturbation theory and proved to be potentially important in understanding the physical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 E. V. Polyachenko , P. Berczik , A. Just , I. G. Shukhman

Annihilation radiation from neutralino dark matter at the Galactic center (GC) would be greatly enhanced if the dark matter were strongly clustered around the supermassive black hole (SBH). The existence of a dark-matter "spike" is made…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 David Merritt

In this study, we begin by revisiting the oscillatory behavior of radiative quantities-energy, angular momentum, and linear momentum-linked with initial eccentricities in binary black hole (BBH) mergers. By varying the mean anomaly $l_0$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-09 Hao Wang , Yuan Chuan Zou , Qing Wen Wu

We investigate whether a correlation exists between the concentration and spin parameters of dark matter haloes forming in LCDM N-body simulations. In particular, we focus on haloes with virial masses characteristic of the hosts of Low…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jeremy Bailin , Chris Power , Brad K. Gibson , Matthias Steinmetz

Supermassive black hole (SMBH) binaries residing at the core of merging galaxies are recently found to be strongly affected by the rotation of their host galaxies. The highly eccentric orbits that form when the host is counterrotating emit…

The anisotropic distribution of satellites around the central galaxy of their host halo is well-documented. However the relative impact of baryons and dark matter in shaping this distribution is still debated. Using the simulation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-22 Charlotte Welker , Chris Power , Christophe Pichon , Yohan Dubois , Julien Devriendt , Sandrine Codis

Gravitational-wave (GW) detections of merging neutron star-black hole (NSBH) systems probe astrophysical neutron star (NS) and black hole (BH) mass distributions, especially at the transition between NS and BH masses. Of particular interest…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-05 Christine Ye , Maya Fishbach

We investigate the black hole (BH) scaling relation in galaxies using a model in which the galaxy halo and central BH are a self-gravitating sphere of dark matter (DM) with an isotropic, adiabatic equation of state. The equipotential where…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Curtis J. Saxton , Roberto Soria , Kinwah Wu

We study the mass assembly and spin evolution of supermassive black holes (BHs) across cosmic time as well as the impact of gravitational recoil on the population of nuclear and wandering black holes (wBHs) by using the semi-analytical…

We study the detailed structure of galaxies at redshifts z > 2 using cosmological simulations with improved modeling of the interstellar medium and star formation. The simulations follow the formation and dissociation of molecular hydrogen,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-09-21 Marcel Zemp , Oleg Y. Gnedin , Nickolay Y. Gnedin , Andrey V. Kravtsov

The mass and spin of black holes (BHs) in binary systems may change due to the infall of gravitational-wave (GW) energy down the horizons. For spinning BHs, this effect enters at 2.5 post-Newtonian (PN) order relative to the leading-order…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-19 M. V. S. Saketh , Jan Steinhoff , Justin Vines , Alessandra Buonanno

The most massive halos of matter in the Universe grow via accretion and merger events throughout cosmic times. These violent processes generate shocks at many scales and induce large-scale bulk and turbulent motions. These processes inject…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-16 Simon Dupourqué , Etienne Pointecouteau , Nicolas Clerc , Dominique Eckert

Recent observations indicate that the mass of Supermassive Black Holes (SMBHs) correlate differently with different galaxy stellar components. Comparing such observations with the results of "ab initio" galaxy formation models can provide…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-26 Nicola Menci , Fabrizio Fiore , Angela Bongiorno , Alessandra Lamastra

We perform a hierarchical Bayesian inference to investigate the population properties of the coalescing compact binaries involving at least one neutron star (NS). With the current observation data, we can not rule out either of the Double…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-22 Yin-Jie Li , Shao-Peng Tang , Yuan-Zhu Wang , Qiang Yuan , Yi-Zhong Fan , Da-Ming Wei

Stellar mass black holes (BHs) are expected to segregate and form a steep density cusp around supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in galactic nuclei. We follow the evolution of a multi-mass system of BHs and stars by numerically integrating…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ryan M. O'Leary , Bence Kocsis , Abraham Loeb