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First Detection of an Overmassive Black Hole Galaxy UHZ1: Evidence for Heavy Black Hole Seed Formation from Direct Collapse

open access: yesThe Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2023
The recent Chandra-JWST discovery of a quasar in the z ≈ 10.1 galaxy UHZ1 reveals that accreting supermassive black holes were already in place 470 million years after the Big Bang. The Chandra X-ray source detected in UHZ1 is a Compton-thick quasar with
Priyamvada Natarajan   +5 more
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Black Hole Spin Properties of 130 AGN [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Supermassive black holes may be described by their mass and spin. When supermassive black holes are active, the activity provides a probe of the state of the black hole system.
Daly, Ruth A., Sprinkle, Trevor B.
core   +1 more source

Gravitational lensing by a Horndeski black hole

open access: yesEuropean Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields, 2017
In this article we study gravitational lensing by non-rotating and asymptotically flat black holes in Horndeski theory. By adopting the strong deflection limit, we calculate the deflection angle, from which we obtain the positions and the magnifications ...
Javier Badía, Ernesto F. Eiroa
doaj   +1 more source

A supermassive black hole awakes [PDF]

open access: yesScience, 2017
Active Galaxies Every large galaxy hosts a supermassive black hole at its center, which grows by consuming passing gas or stars. Most are quiescent, but when the black hole is feeding, an accretion disk forms, causing the galaxy nucleus to shine brightly as a quasar. Gezari et al.
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Evolution of supermassive black holes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The cosmological evolution of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) seems to be intimately linked to their host galaxies. Active galactic nuclei (AGN) can be probed by deep X-ray surveys. We review results from large X-ray selected samples including first results from the XMM-Newton COSMOS survey.
Günther Hasinger, Andreas Müller
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The supermassive black hole of Fornax A [PDF]

open access: yesMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2008
The radio galaxy Fornax A (NGC 1316) is a prominent merger remnant in the outskirts of the Fornax cluster. Its giant radio lobes suggest the presence of a powerful AGN and thus a central supermassive black hole (SMBH). We present high-resolution adaptive optics assisted integral-field data of Fornax A, taken with SINFONI at the Very Large Telescope in ...
Karl Gebhardt   +5 more
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Can Supermassive Black Holes alter Cold Dark Matter cusps through accretion? [PDF]

open access: yesMon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 339 (2003) 949, 2002
We present some simple models to determine whether or not the accretion of cold dark matter by supermassive black holes is astrophysically important. Contrary to some claims in the literature, we show that supermassive black holes cannot significantly alter a power law density cusp via accretion, whether during mergers or in the steady state.
arxiv   +1 more source

Dynamics of galaxy cores and supermassive black holes [PDF]

open access: yesRept.Prog.Phys. D69 (2006) 2513-2579, 2006
Recent work on the dynamical evolution of galactic nuclei containing supermassive black holes is reviewed. Topics include galaxy structural properties; collisionless and collisional equilibria; loss-cone dynamics; and dynamics of binary and multiple supermassive black holes.
arxiv   +1 more source

Supermassive black holes then and now [PDF]

open access: yesAIP Conference Proceedings, 1998
7 pages, to appear in The Proceedings of the Second International LISA Symposium on Graviational Waves, ed.
openaire   +5 more sources

Signatures of primordial black holes as seeds of supermassive black holes [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2018
It is broadly accepted that Supermassive Black Holes (SMBHs) are located in the centers of most massive galaxies, although there is still no convincing scenario for the origin of their massive seeds. It has been suggested that primordial black holes (PBHs) of masses $\gtrsim 10^{2} M_\odot$ may provide such seeds, which would grow to become SMBHs.
Licia Verde   +5 more
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