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Massive stellar clumps in high redshift galaxies interact and migrate to the center to form a bulge and exponential disk in <1 Gyr. Here we consider the fate of intermediate mass black holes (BHs) that might form by massive-star coalescence…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Bruce G. Elmegreen , Frederic Bournaud , Debra Meloy Elmegreen

We consider the evolution of supermassive black hole binaries at the center of spherical, axisymmetric, and triaxial galaxies, using direct N-body integrations as well as analytic estimates. We find that the rates of binary hardening…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Eugene Vasiliev , Fabio Antonini , David Merritt

In this paper, we investigate the dynamical formation and evolution of 2 + 1-dimensional charged black holes. We numerically study dynamical collapses of charged matter fields in an anti de Sitter background and note the formation of black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-28 Dong-il Hwang , Hongbin Kim , Dong-han Yeom

We compare all the available observational data on the redshift evolution of the total stellar mass and star formation rate density in the Universe with the mass and accretion rate density evolution of supermassive black holes, estimated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 A. Merloni , G. Rudnick , T. Di Matteo

Supermassive black hole (SMBH) binaries residing at the core of merging galaxies are recently found to be strongly affected by the rotation of their host galaxies. The highly eccentric orbits that form when the host is counterrotating emit…

The evolution of a rotating axisymmetric galaxy from an asymmetric state to a state of mirror symmetry with respect to the galactic plane has as basic result that in the asymmetric initial state the perpendicular $z$ normal mode is unstable…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-19 Ferdinand Verhulst

Understanding how seed black holes grow into intermediate and supermassive black holes (IMBHs and SMBHs, respectively) has important implications for the duty-cycle of active galactic nuclei (AGN), galaxy evolution, and gravitational wave…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Miroslav Micic , Kelly Holley-Bockelmann , Steinn Sigurdsson , Tom Abel

We postulate that supermassive black-holes grow in the centers of galaxies until they unbind the galactic gas that feeds them. We show that the corresponding self-regulation condition yields a correlation between black-hole mass (Mbh) and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Stuart Wyithe , Abraham Loeb

We suggest a new picture of supermassive black hole (SMBH) growth in galaxy centers. Momentum-driven feedback from an accreting hole gives significant orbital energy but little angular momentum to the surrounding gas. Once central accretion…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Walter Dehnen , Andrew King

We present a semi-analytic model of isolated dwarf galaxy evolution and use it to study the build-up of observed correlations between dwarf galaxy properties. We analyse the evolution using models with averaged and individual halo mass…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-12 Eimantas Ledinauskas , Kastytis Zubovas

Most galactic nuclei harbor a massive black hole (MBH), whose birth and evolution are closely linked to those of its host galaxy. The unique conditions near the MBH: high velocity and density in the steep potential of a massive singular…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-30 Tal Alexander

The deep connection between galaxies and their supermassive black holes is central to modern astrophysics and cosmology. The observed correlation between galaxy and black hole mass is usually attributed to the contribution of major mergers…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-19 B. D. Simmons , R. J. Smethurst , C. Lintott

Supermassive black holes (BHs) appear to be ubiquitous at the center of all galaxies which have been observed at high enough sensitivities and resolution with the Hubble Space Telescope. Their masses are found to be tightly linked with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Francesco Shankar

We investigate the effects of massive black hole growth on the structural evolution of dwarf galaxies within the Romulus25 cosmological hydrodynamical simulation. We study a sample of 228 central, isolated dwarf galaxies with stellar masses…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-28 Ray Sharma , Alyson Brooks , Rachel S. Somerville , Michael Tremmel , Jillian Bellovary , Anna Wright , Thomas Quinn

It is well known that supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and their host galaxies co-evolve. A manifestation of this co-evolution is the correlation that has been found between the SMBH mass, M$_{BH}$, and the galaxy bulge or stellar mass,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-12 George Mountrichas

We investigate the growth of massive quiescent galaxies at $z<0.6$ based on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and the Smithsonian Hectospec Lensing Survey---two magnitude limited spectroscopic surveys of high data quality and completeness. Our…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-07 H. Jabran Zahid , Margaret J. Geller , Ivana Damjanov , Jubee Sohn

Recent James Webb Space Telescope observations have revealed a peculiar class of galaxies at redshifts $z \gtrsim 6$, characterized by extremely high central stellar densities and overmassive central supermassive black holes (SMBHs),…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-09 Fazeel Mahmood Khan , Benjamin L. Davis , Andrea Valerio Macciò , Kelly Holley-Bockelmann

We implement a numerical model reported in the literature to simulate the evolution of a galaxy composed of four matter components, such as: a dark-matter halo; a rotating disk of stars; a spherical bulge of stars and a ring of molecular…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-02 Guillermo Arreaga-Garcia

Bulges and disks are major structural components that define galaxy morphology. The mass ratios of bulges and disks increase statistically with the galaxy mass, with the high-mass end occupied by elliptical galaxies. Although previous…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-25 Masafumi Noguchi

I present galaxy models resulting from violent relaxation in the presence of a pre-existing black hole. The models are computed by maximizing the entropy of the stellar dynamical system. I show that their properties are very similar to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 M. Stiavelli