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[Abridged] [...] We study the mass and spin evolution of massive black holes within a semianalytical galaxy-formation model that follows the evolution of dark-matter halos along merger trees, as well as that of the baryonic components (hot…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-17 Enrico Barausse

It is generally believed that gaseous disks around supermassive black hole (SMBH) binaries in centers of galaxies can facilitate binary merger and give rise to observational signatures both in electromagnetic and gravitational wave domains.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 Roman R. Rafikov

We present spatially extended gas kinematics at parsec-scale resolution for the nuclear regions of four nearby disk galaxies, and model them as rotation of a gas disk in the joint potential of the stellar bulge and a putative central black…

The relations between masses of Super-Massive Black Holes, Mbh, in galactic nuclei, maximal rotational velocities, Vm, and indicative masses, Mi, of galaxies are studied for galaxies with the available rotation curves. Mbh correlates with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. V. Zasov , A. M. Cherepashchuk , L. N. Petrochenko

Coalescence of intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) as a result of the migration toward galactic centers via dynamical friction may contribute to the formation of supermassive BHs. Here we reinvestigate the gaseous dynamical friction,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-27 Daisuke Toyouchi , Takashi Hosokawa , Kazuyuki Sugimura , Rolf Kuiper

We study the stellar distribution around supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in gas-rich nuclear star clusters (NSCs). NSCs could contain vast amounts of gas, which contribute significantly to shaping the stellar distribution, typically…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-10 Mor Rozner , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

The discovery of a relationship between supermassive black hole (SMBH) mass and spiral arm pitch angle (P) is evidence that SMBHs are tied to the overall secular evolution of a galaxy. The discovery of SMBHs in late-type galaxies with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Patrick Treuthardt , Marc S. Seigar , Amber D. Sierra , Ismaeel Al-Baidhany , Heikki Salo , Daniel Kennefick , Julia Kennefick , Claud H. S. Lacy

We develop models of two-component spherical galaxies to establish scaling relations linking the properties of spheroids at $z=0$ (total stellar masses, effective radii $R_e$ and velocity dispersions within $R_e$) to the properties of their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-07-20 Adam C Larkin , Dean E McLaughlin

We explore the connection between the central supermassive blackholes (SMBH) in galaxies and the dark matter halo through the relation between the masses of the SMBHs and the maximum circular velocities of the host galaxies, as well as the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Bassem M. Sabra , Charbel Saliba , Maya Abi Akl , Gilbert Chahine

We use the wide-used \textsf{Einstein Toolkit} to solve the Einstein constraints and then simulate the expansion of primordial black hole lattices (PBHLs) with different value of $f_{\mathrm{PBH}}$ and $m_{\mathrm{PBH}}$. We find that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-08 Ke Wang

Recent high-resolution observations indicate that nuclear spirals are often present in the innermost few hundred parsecs of disc galaxies. My models show that nuclear spirals form naturally as a gas response to non-axisymmetry in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Witold Maciejewski

There is growing observational evidence for a population of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in galactic bulges. We examine in detail the conditions under which these black holes must have originated from primordial black holes (PBHs). We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Rachel Bean , Joao Magueijo

Recent Hubble Space Telescope (HST) observations have revealed that a majority of active galactic nuclei (AGN) at z ~ 1-3 are resident in isolated disk galaxies, contrary to the usual expectation that AGN are triggered by mergers. Here we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 Victor P. Debattista , Stelios Kazantzidis , Frank C. van den Bosch

We investigated the evolution of a massive galactic nucleus hosting a super-massive black hole (SMBH) with mass $M_\mathrm{SMBH}=10^8 \mathrm{M}_\odot$ surrounded by a population of 42 heavy star clusters (GCs). Using direct $N$-body…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-05 Manuel Arca-Sedda , Roberto Capuzzo-Dolcetta

Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are commonly found at the centers of their host galaxies, but their formation still remains an open question. In light of the tight correlation between the BH mass and the velocity dispersions of the bulge…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 Zhen Pan , Huan Yang

We present a series of $N$-body simulations representing the evolution of a galactic nucleus and its stellar content in a nearly one-to-one representation. The aim of this suite of simulations is to shed light on the interplay between…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-16 Manuel Arca-Sedda , Roberto Capuzzo-Dolcetta

In this study of the `Resolving supermAssive Black hole Binaries In galacTic hydrodynamical Simulations' (RABBITS) series, we focus on the hardening and coalescing process of supermassive black hole (SMBH) binaries in galaxy mergers. For…

First, we verify that the physical parameters estimated for the four directly detected gravitational wave (GW) events involving coalescence of binary black holes (BHs) indeed uphold the second law of BH thermodynamics, strengthening further…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-08 Patrick Das Gupta , Fazlu Rahman

The growing population of binary black holes (BBHs) observed by gravitational wave detectors is a potential Rosetta stone for understanding their formation channels. Here, we use an upgraded version of our semi-analytic codes {\sc…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-02 Michela Mapelli , Yann Bouffanais , Filippo Santoliquido , Manuel Arca Sedda , M. Celeste Artale

Nuclear star clusters (NSCs) and supermassive black holes (SMBHs) both inhabit galactic nuclei, coexisting in a range of bulge masses, but excluding each other in the largest or smallest galaxies. We propose that the transformation of NSCs…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-08 Nicholas C. Stone , Andreas H. W. Kuepper , Jeremiah P. Ostriker