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A Candidate Runaway Supermassive Black Hole Identified by Shocks and Star Formation in its Wake
The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2023 The interaction of a runaway supermassive black hole (SMBH) with the circumgalactic medium (CGM) can lead to the formation of a wake of shocked gas and young stars behind it.
Pieter van Dokkum +15 more
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Extreme accretion events: TDEs and changing‐look AGN
Astronomische Nachrichten, Volume 344, Issue 4, May 2023., 2023 Abstract We present a review of the topics of X‐ray stellar tidal disruption events (TDEs) and changing‐look active galactic nuclei (AGN). Stars approaching a supermassive black hole (SMBH) can be tidally disrupted and accreted. TDEs were first discovered in the X‐ray regime and appear as luminous, giant‐amplitude flares from inactive galaxies.
S. Komossa, D. Grupe
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The Powers of Relativistic Jets depend on the Spin of Accreting Supermassive Black Hole [PDF]
, 2021 Theoretical models show that the power of relativistic jets of active galactic nuclei depends on the spin and mass of the central supermassive black holes, as well as the accretion. Here we report an analysis of archival observations of a sample of blazars.
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The birth of a supermassive black hole binary [PDF]
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2017 12 pages, 12 Figures, submitted to ...
Pfister, Hugo +5 more
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Astronomische Nachrichten, Volume 344, Issue 4, May 2023., 2023 Abstract The non‐linear correlation between the UV and X‐ray emission observed in active galactic nuclei remains a puzzling question that challenges accretion models. While the UV emission originates from the cold disk, the X‐ray emission is emitted by a hot corona whose physical characteristics and geometry are still highly debated.
S. Barnier +3 more
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Astronomische Nachrichten, Volume 344, Issue 4, May 2023., 2023 Abstract Radiation‐magnetohydrodynamic simulation of the active galactic nuclei predicts the presence of the strong accretion disk wind, which gets unstable far from the central region and turns into gas clumps. These inner wind and outer clumps may be actually observed as the ultrafast outflows (UFOs) and the clumpy absorbers, respectively.
Takuya Midooka +2 more
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Gravitational Larmor precession
European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields, 2023 Inspired by the reported existence of substantive magnetic fields in the vicinity of the central supermassive black holes in Sagittarius A* and Messier 87*, we consider test particle motion in the spacetime close to a generic spherical black hole in the ...
Chandrachur Chakraborty +1 more
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Global Understanding of Accretion and Ejection around Black Holes
Galaxies, 2022 Accretion and ejection around compact objects, mainly around black holes, both in low mass, and supermassive, is rich and has been studied exhaustively [...]
Santanu Mondal
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No Supermassive Black Hole in M33?
Science, 2001 We observed the nucleus of M33, the third-brightest galaxy in the Local Group, with the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph at a resolution at least a factor of 10 higher than previously obtained. Rather than the steep rise expected within the radius of gravitational influence of a supermassive black hole, the random stellar velocities showed a ...
David Merritt +2 more
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Structure and stability of differentially rotating compact stellar objects
Astronomische Nachrichten, Volume 344, Issue 1-2, January-February 2023., 2023 Abstract Depending on the dynamics of a binary neutron star merger, the collision may result in a differentially rotating compact object. Differentially rotating stars can sustain a total mass considerably higher than that of a uniformly rotating star, giving rise to “hypermassive” objects like hypermassive neutron stars.
Delaney Farrell +2 more
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