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We study the correlations between Supermassive Black Holes (BH) and their host galaxies, using a sample of 83 BH masses collected from the most recent and reliable spatially resolved estimates available from the literature. We confirm the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-25 Stefano de Nicola , Alessandro Marconi , Giuseppe Longo

In this paper, we examine if the properties of central black holes in galactic nuclei correlate with their host dark matter halo. We analyze the entire sample of galaxies where black hole mass, velocity dispersion, sigma, and asymptotic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Marta Volonteri , Priyamvada Natarajan , Kayhan Gultekin

A variety of host galaxy (bulge) parameters are examined in order to determine their predictive power in ascertaining the masses of the supermassive black holes (SMBH) at the centers of the galaxies. Based on a sample of 23 nearby galaxies,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. C. Aller , D. O. Richstone

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

Black hole mass ($M_{BH}$) scaling relations are typically derived using the properties of a galaxy's bulge and samples dominated by (high-mass) early-type galaxies. Studying late-type galaxies should provide greater insight into the mutual…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-12 Benjamin L. Davis , Alister W. Graham , Ewan Cameron

We investigate the relation between circular velocity vc and bulge velocity dispersion sigma in spiral galaxies, based on literature data and new spectroscopic observations. We find a strong, nearly linear vc-sigma correlation with a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Maarten Baes , Herwig Dejonghe , Pieter Buyle , Laura Ferrarese , Gianfranco Gentile

[Abridged] We investigate the nature of the relations between black hole (BH) mass ($M_{\rm BH}$) and the central velocity dispersion ($\sigma$) and, for core-S\'ersic galaxies, the size of the depleted core ($R_{\rm b}$). Our sample of 144…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-24 Bililign T. Dullo , Armando Gil de Paz , Johan H. Knapen

This poster discusses a possible explanation for the relationship between the mass of the central supermassive black hole and the velocity dispersion in the bulge of the host galaxy. We suppose that the black hole and the dark matter halo…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Joseph D. MacMillan , Richard N. Henriksen

Dynamical searches find central dark objects - candidate supermassive black holes (BHs) - in at least 34 galaxies. The demographics of these objects lead to the following conclusions: (1) BH mass correlates with the luminosity of the bulge…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 John Kormendy

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…

Supermassive black holes are thought to be relics of quasars, and their numbers and masses are therefore related to the quasar luminosity function and its evolution with redshift. We have used the relationship between black hole mass and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. C. Aller , D. O. Richstone

Black hole masses are tightly correlated with the stellar velocity dispersions of the bulges which surround them, and slightly less-well correlated with the bulge luminosity. It is common to use these correlations to estimate the expected…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 E. Tundo , M. Bernardi , J. B. Hyde , R. K. Sheth , A. Pizzella

A potential mechanism is proposed to account for the fact that supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in disk galaxies appear to be smaller than those in elliptical galaxies in the same luminosity range. We consider the formation of SMBHs by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Nozomu Kawakatu , Masayuki Umemura

The observed super-massive black hole (SMBH) mass -- galaxy velocity dispersion ($M_{\rm cmo} - \sigma$) correlation, and the similar correlation for nuclear star clusters, may be established when winds/outflows from the CMO ("central…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-17 Sergei Nayakshin

Growing evidence indicate supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in the mass range of $M_{\rm BH}$$\sim 10^6-10^{10}M_{\odot}$ lurking in central bulges of many galaxies. Extensive observations reveal fairly tight power laws of $M_{\rm BH}$…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-25 Yu-Qing Lou , Yan-Fei Jiang

I use the fact that the radiation emitted by the accretion disk of supermassive black hole can heat up the surrounding gas in the protogalaxy to achieve hydrostatic equilibrium during the galaxy formation. The correlation between the black…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 Man Ho Chan

We investigate the scaling relations between the supermassive black holes mass (M_bh) and the host bulge mass in elliptical galaxies, classical bulges, and pseudo-bulges. We use two-dimensional image analysis software BUDDA to obtain the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-08-17 Jian Hu

We argue that the observed correlations between central black holes masses M_{BH} and galactic bulge velocity dispersions \sigma_e in the form M_{BH}\propto\sigma_e^4 may witness on the pregalactic origin of massive black holes. Primordial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 V. I. Dokuchaev , Yu. N. Eroshenko

We demonstrate a strong correlation between supermassive black hole (SMBH) mass and the global structure of ellipticals and bulges: more centrally concentrated bulges and ellipticals (higher Sersic index $n$) host higher-mass black holes.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Erwin , Alister W. Graham , Nicola Caon

We have re-examined the relation between the mass of the central black holes in nearby galaxies, M_bh, and the stellar mass of the surrounding spheroid or bulge, M_bulge. For a total of 30 galaxies bulge masses were derived through Jeans…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Nadine Haering , Hans-Walter Rix