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Feedback from Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) and subsequent jet cocoons and outflow bubbles can have a significant impact on star formation in the host galaxy. To investigate feedback physics on small scales, we perform hydrodynamic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-03 Zachary Dugan , Volker Gaibler , Rebekka Bieri , Joseph Silk , Mubdi Rahman

It is still a matter of intense debate how supermassive black holes (SMBH) grow, and the role played by feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) in the co-evolution of SMBHs and galaxies. To test the coevolution proposed by theoretical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-30 George Mountrichas , Francesco Shankar

A fundamental gap in the current understanding of galaxies concerns the thermodynamical evolution of the ordinary, baryonic matter. On one hand, radiative emission drastically decreases the thermal energy content of the interstellar plasma…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 M. Gaspari , F. Brighenti , P. Temi

Metals in the hot gaseous halos of galaxies encode the history of star formation as well as the feedback processes that eject metals from the galaxies. X-ray observations suggest that massive galaxies have extended distributions of metals…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-25 Ena Choi , Ryan Brennan , Rachel S. Somerville , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Michaela Hirschmann , Thorsten Naab

The role of active galactic nuclei (AGN) feedback in dwarf galaxies remains poorly understood, with conventional wisdom suggesting it primarily suppresses star formation. Using high-resolution MACER3D simulations that directly resolve the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-27 Tingfang Su , Suoqing Ji , Feng Yuan , Haojie Xia , Yuxuan Zou

AGN feedback is a key piece of galaxy evolution but is difficult to model due to its high specific energies, multiphase nature, and limited simulation resolutions. Arkenstone is a subgrid framework for representing multiphase flows in…

We conducted 3D-MHD simulations to investigate the feedback processes in the central 1kpc scale of galaxies hosting both active star formation (SF) and an AGN wind. Our simulations naturally generated a turbulent and clumpy interstellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-21 William E. Clavijo-Bohórquez , Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , Claudio Melioli

There is growing observational evidence for dwarf galaxies hosting active galactic nuclei (AGN), including hints of AGN-driven outflows in dwarfs. However, in the common theoretical model of galaxy formation, efficient supernova (SN)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-02 Sophie Koudmani , Debora Sijacki , Matthew C. Smith

We investigate how AGN disk turbulence affects the orbital dynamics of a stellar-mass black hole (BH) initially located at a migration trap, focusing on the long-term behavior of eccentricity and inclination in the quasi-embedded regime. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-05 Alessandro Alberto Trani , Pierfrancesco Di Cintio

Stars embedded in the accretion disks of active galactic nuclei (AGN) can accrete rapidly from their surroundings, dramatically altering their structure and evolution. However, feedback from the release of gravitational potential energy and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-28 Alexander J. Dittmann , Matteo Cantiello

Central starbursts and Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are thought to be fueled by either galaxy interactions or secular processes in gravitationally unstable discs. We employ cosmological hydrodynamic simulations from the Feedback in…

Using high-resolution hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy clusters, we study the interaction between the brightest cluster galaxy, its supermassive black hole (BH) and the intracluster medium (ICM). We create initial conditions for which…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-03 Folkert S. J. Nobels , Joop Schaye , Matthieu Schaller , Yannick M. Bahé , Evgenii Chaikin

The feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) plays a crucial role in regulating the thermodynamics and the dynamics of the intracluster medium (ICM). Studying the turbulent patterns of the hot and warm ionized phases may allow us to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-14 Stefano Sotira , Franco Vazza , Fabrizio Brighenti

In large-scale hydrodynamical cosmological simulations, the fate of massive galaxies is mainly dictated by the modeling of feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN). The amount of energy released by AGN feedback is proportional to the mass…

There is compelling evidence that black holes (BHs) in cluster centers vigorously interact with their surroundings, indicating that any realistic model of cluster formation needs to account for these processes. Here we use high-resolution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Ewald Puchwein , Debora Sijacki , Volker Springel

The brightest steady sources of radiation in the universe, active galactic nuclei (AGN), are powered by gas accretion onto a central supermassive black hole (SMBH). The large sizes and accretion rates implicated in AGN accretion disks are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-17 Marguerite Epstein-Martin , Hiromichi Tagawa , Zoltan Haiman , Rosalba Perna

We use hydrodynamical simulations from the OWLS project to investigate the dependence of the physical properties of galaxy populations at redshift 2 on metal-line cooling and feedback from star formation and active galactic nuclei (AGN). We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Marcel R. Haas , Joop Schaye , C. M. Booth , Claudio Dalla Vecchia , Volker Springel , Tom Theuns , Robert P. C. Wiersma

The co-evolution between supermassive black holes and their environment is most directly traced by the hot atmospheres of dark matter halos. Cooling of the hot atmosphere supplies the central regions with fresh gas, igniting active galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-29 Dominique Eckert , Massimo Gaspari , Fabio Gastaldello , Amandine M. C. Le Brun , Ewan O'Sullivan

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) have been observed in dwarf galaxies, yet the impact of black hole feedback in these low-mass systems remains unclear. To uncover the potential effects of AGN in the low-mass galaxy regime, we study the…

Feedback heating from AGN in massive galaxies and galaxy clusters can be thought of as a naturally occurring control system which plays a significant role in regulating both star formation rates and the X-ray luminosity of the surrounding…

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