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Galaxies become red and dead when the central supermassive black hole (SMBH) becomes massive enough to drive an outflow beyond the virial radius of the halo. We show that this final SMBH mass is larger than the final SMBH mass in the bulge…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 Kastytis Zubovas , Andrew R. King

We have conducted an image analysis of the (current) full sample of 44 spiral galaxies with directly measured supermassive black hole (SMBH) masses, $M_{\rm BH}$, to determine each galaxy's logarithmic spiral arm pitch angle, $\phi$. For…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-20 Benjamin L. Davis , Alister W. Graham , Marc S. Seigar

The empirical model of Lu et al. 2014a for the relation between star formation rate and halo mass growth is adopted to predict the classical bulge mass ($M_{\rm cb}$) - total stellar mass ($M_\star$) relation for central galaxies. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Zhankui Lu , H. J. Mo

We report the first results of a program to measure accurate stellar velocity dispersions in the bulges of the host galaxies of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) for which accurate black hole (BH) masses have been determined via reverberation…

We demonstrate that a log-linear relation does not provide an adequate description of the correlation between the masses of Super-Massive Black-Holes (SMBH, M_bh) and the velocity dispersions of their host spheroid (sigma). An unknown…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Stuart Wyithe

The growth of supermassive black holes by merging and accretion in hierarchical models of galaxy formation is studied by means of Monte Carlo simulations. A tight linear relation between masses of black holes and masses of bulges arises if…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Cattaneo , M. G. Haehnelt , M. J. Rees

We investigate the relationship between the mass of the central supermassive black hole, M_bh, and the host galaxy luminosity, L_gal, in a sample of quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 7 (DR7). We use composite…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 S. Salviander , G. A. Shields , E. W. Bonning

Supermassive black holes (BHs) residing in the brightest cluster galaxies are over-massive relative to the stellar bulge mass or central stellar velocity dispersion of their host galaxies. As BHs residing at the bottom of the galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-31 Akos Bogdan , Lorenzo Lovisari , Marta Volonteri , Yohan Dubois

Observations in the local universe show a tight correlation between the masses of supermassive black holes (SMBHs; $M_{\rm BH}$) and host-galaxy bulges ($M_{\rm bulge}$), suggesting a strong connection between SMBH and bulge growth.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-13 Guang Yang , W. N. Brandt , D. M. Alexander , C. -T. J. Chen , Q. Ni , F. Vito , F. -F. Zhu

We present an investigation of the scaling relations between Supermassive Black Hole (SMBH) masses (Mbh), and their host galaxies' K-band bulge (Lbul) and total (Ltot) luminosities. The wide-field WIRCam imager at the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Ronald Läsker , Laura Ferrarese , Glenn van de Ven , Francesco Shankar

We investigate the relationship between black hole mass and host galaxy properties for active galaxies with the lowest black hole masses currently known in galaxy nuclei. Hubble Space Telescope imaging confirms that the host galaxies have…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jenny E. Greene , Luis C. Ho , Aaron J. Barth

We present results from a study to determine whether relations, established in the local Universe, between the mass of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and their host galaxies are in place at higher redshifts. We establish a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Malte Schramm , John D. Silverman

The empirical relationship between the broad line region size and the source luminosity in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is used to obtain black holes (BH) masses for a large number of quasars in three samples. The largests BH masses found…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Hagai Netzer

The realization of fundamental relations between supermassive black holes and their host galaxies would have profound implications in astrophysics. To add further context to studies of their co-evolution, an investigation is carried out to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-20 John Silverman , Junyao Li , Xuheng Ding

QSOs allow study of the evolution of the relationship between black holes in galactic nuclei and their host galaxies. The black hole mass can be derived from the widths of the broad emission lines, and the stellar velocity dispersion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 G. A. Shields , S. Salviander , E. W. Bonning

Observations of nearby galaxies reveal a strong correlation between the mass of the central dark object M and the velocity dispersion sigma of the host galaxy, of the form log(M/M_sun) = a + b*log(sigma/sigma_0); however, published…

Much progress has been made in measuring black hole (BH) masses in (non-active) galactic nuclei using the tight correlation between stellar velocity dispersions (sigma) in galaxies and the mass of their central BH. The use of this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Gabriela Canalizo , Margrethe Wold , Mariana Lazarova , Mark Lacy

We report on the relation between the mass of supermassive black holes (SMBHs; M_BH) and that of hosting dark matter halos (M_h) for 49 z ~ 6 quasi-stellar objects (QSOs) with [CII]158um velocity-width measurements. Here, we estimate M_h…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-26 Kazuhiro Shimasaku , Takuma Izumi

We use the high-resolution simulation MassiveBlackII to examine scaling relations between black hole mass (MBH) and host galaxy properties (sigma, M*, and LV), finding good agreement with observational data, especially at the high-mass end.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-07 Colin DeGraf , Tiziana Di Matteo , Tommaso Treu , Yu Feng , Jong-Hak Woo , Daeseong Park

We study the observational constraints on the cosmic evolution of the relationships between the massive black hole (MBH) mass (M_bh) and the stellar mass (M^*_sph; or velocity dispersion \sigma) of the host galaxy/spheroid. Assuming that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Xiaoxia Zhang , Youjun Lu , Qingjuan Yu