Growing supermassive black holes in the late stages of galaxy mergers are heavily obscured [PDF]
, 2017 Mergers of galaxies are thought to cause significant gas inflows to the inner parsecs, which can activate rapid accretion on to supermassive black holes (SMBHs), giving rise to active galactic nuclei (AGN). During a significant fraction of this process,
C. Ricci +13 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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DYNAMICAL FRICTION AROUND SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLES [PDF]
The Astrophysical Journal, 2011 The density of stars in galactic bulges is often observed to be flat or slowly rising inside the influence radius of the supermassive black hole (SMBH). Attributing the dynamical friction force to stars moving more slowly than the test body, as is commonly done, is likely to be a poor approximation in such a core since there are no stars moving more ...
Antonini, Fabio, Merritt, David
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Supermassive Black Holes with High Accretion Rates in Active Galactic Nuclei. IX. 10 New Observations of Reverberation Mapping and Shortened Hβ Lags [PDF]
, 2018 As one paper in a series reporting on a large reverberation mapping campaign of super-Eddington accreting massive black holes (SEAMBHs) in active galactic nuclei (AGNs), we present the results of 10 SEAMBHs monitored spectroscopically during 2015–2017 ...
P. Du +12 more
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Fuzzy dark matter soliton cores around supermassive black holes [PDF]
Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2019 We explore the effect of a supermassive black hole (SMBH) on the density profile of a fuzzy dark matter (FDM) soliton core at the centre of a dark matter (DM) halo.
Elliot Y Davies, Philip Mocz
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Supermassive black holes in the early universe [PDF]
Contemporary physics (Print), 2019 The emergence of the first black holes during the first billion years of cosmic history marks a key event in cosmology. Their formation is part of the overall process of ending the cosmic dark ages, when the first stars appeared in low-mass dark matter ...
Aaron Smith, V. Bromm
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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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A Unified Model for the Evolution of Galaxies and Quasars [PDF]
, 1999 We incorporate a simple scheme for the growth of supermassive black holes into semi-analytic models that follow the formation and evolution of galaxies in a cold dark matter dominated Universe.
G. Kauffmann, M. Haehnelt, Rees
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The Coevolution of Galaxies and Supermassive Black Holes: Insights from Surveys of the Contemporary Universe [PDF]
, 2014 We summarize what large surveys of the contemporary Universe have taught us about the physics and phenomenology of the processes that link the formation and evolution of galaxies with their central supermassive black holes.
T. Heckman, P. Best
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Hierarchical build-up of galactic bulges and the merging rate of supermassive binary black holes
, 2003 The hierarchical build-up of galactic bulges should lead to the build-up of present-day supermassive black holes by a mixture of gas accretion and merging of supermassive black holes.
Begelman M +11 more
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