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We combine Hubble Space Telescope spectroscopy and ground-based integral-field data from the SAURON and OASIS instruments to study the central black hole in the nearby elliptical galaxy NGC 3379. From these data, we obtain kinematics of…

Observational studies of nearby galaxies have demonstrated correlations between the mass of the central supermassive black holes (BHs) and properties of the host galaxies, notably the stellar bulge mass or central stellar velocity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Akos Bogdan , Andy D. Goulding

Galactic bulges are known to harbour central black holes whose mass is tightly correlated with the stellar mass and velocity dispersion of the bulge. In a hierarchical universe, mergers of subgalactic units are accompanied by the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 N. I. Libeskind , S. Cole , C. S. Frenk , J. C. Helly

We report results of the first reverberation mapping campaign of I Zwicky 1 during $2014$-$2016$, which showed unambiguous reverberations of the broad H$\beta$ line emission to the varying optical continuum. From analysis using several…

The present-day mass function of supermassive black holes is the most important observable quantity for the prediction and theoretical interpretation of the gravitational wave background (GWB) measured by pulsar timing arrays (PTAs). Due to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-11 Gabriela Sato-Polito , Matias Zaldarriaga

Calculations of the inner mass function of the Hayward regular black hole with fluxes are reviewed and rederived. We present detailed calculations of the inner mass function in two forms of the Ori approach (the ingoing flux is continuous,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-18 Mikhail Z. Iofa

We consider the inspiral of black holes carrying U(1) charge that is not electromagnetic, but corresponds to some dark sector. In the weak-field, low-velocity regime, the components follow Keplerian orbits. We investigate how the orbital…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-23 Øyvind Christiansen , Jose Beltrán Jiménez , David F. Mota

The black hole mass function of supermassive black holes describes the evolution of the distribution of black hole mass. It is one of the primary empirical tools available for mapping the growth of supermassive black holes and for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Brandon C. Kelly , Andrea Merloni

The activity of at least one repeating Fast Radio Burst (FRB) source is periodically modulated. If this modulation is the result of precession of the rotation axis and throat of an accretion disc around a black hole, driven by a companion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-06 J. I. Katz

Supermassive black holes in giant elliptical galaxies are remarkably faint given their expected accretion rates. This motivates models of radiatively inefficient accretion, due to either ion-electron thermal decoupling, generation of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Jonathan C. Tan , Henrik Beuther , Fabian Walter , Eric G. Blackman

AGN reverberate when the broad emission lines respond to changes of the ionizing thermal continuum emission. Reverberation measurements have been commonly used to estimate the size of the broad-line region (BLR) and the mass of the central…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-04 J. León-Tavares , V. Chavushyan , A. Lobanov , E. Valtaoja , T. G. Arshakian

An empirical relationship, of particular interest for studies of high redshift active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and quasars, between the masses of their central black-holes and rest-frame ultraviolet (UV) parameters measured in single-epoch…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Vestergaard

Along the last ten years, a general relativistic method has been developed to generate analytical expressions for the black hole (BH) parameters in terms of observables, namely the frequency shift of photons emitted by orbiting test…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-05 Adriana González-Juárez , Alfredo Herrera-Aguilar

Tight relationships exist in the local universe between the central stellar properties of galaxies and the mass of their supermassive black hole. These suggest galaxies and black holes co-evolve, with the main regulation mechanism being…

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The mass-energy formula for a black hole endowed with electromagnetic structure (EMBH) is clarified for the nonrotating case. The irreducible mass $M_{\mathrm{irr}}$ is found to be independent of the electromagnetic field and explicitly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Remo Ruffini , Luca Vitagliano

Measurements of gravitational waves from the inspiral of a stellar-mass compact object into a massive black hole are unique probes to test General Relativity (GR) and MBH properties, as well as the stellar distribution about these holes in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Pau Amaro-Seoane , Patrick Brem , Jorge Cuadra , Philip J. Armitage

The discovery of gravitational waves from compact objects coalescence opens a brand-new window to observe the universe. With more events being detected in the future, statistical examinations would be essential to better understand the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-31 Shao-Peng Tang , Hao Wang , Yuan-Zhu Wang , Ming-Zhe Han , Yi-Zhong Fan , Da-Ming Wei

We develop and discuss a model formalism to study the properties of mass outflows that are emerged out from a relativistic, magnetized, viscous, advective accretion flow around a rotating black hole. In doing so, we consider the toroidal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-08 Camelia Jana , Santabrata Das

We present the results of long-term photometric monitoring of two active galactic nuclei, 2MASX J08535955+7700543 (z $\sim$ 0.106) and VII Zw 244 (z $\sim$ 0.131), being investigated by the reverberation mapping method in medium-band…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-23 E. A. Malygin , E. S. Shablovinskaya , R. I. Uklein , A. A. Grokhovskaya

Gravitational-wave observations are playing an instrumental role in understanding the population of binary compact objects in the Universe. These observations have begun to hint at the mass distribution of binary black holes (BBHs), with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-19 Upasana Das , Suvodip Mukherjee