The origins of massive black holes

M Volonteri, M Habouzit, M Colpi - Nature Reviews Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Massive black holes (MBHs) inhabit galactic centres, and power luminous quasars and
active galactic nuclei, sha** their cosmic environment with the energy they produce. The …

The assembly of the first massive black holes

K Inayoshi, E Visbal, Z Haiman - Annual Review of Astronomy …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The existence of∼ 109M⊙ supermassive black holes (SMBHs) within the first billion years
of the Universe has stimulated numerous ideas for the prompt formation and rapid growth of …

LISA definition study report

M Colpi, K Danzmann, M Hewitson… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is the first scientific endeavour to detect and
study gravitational waves from space. LISA will survey the sky for Gravitational Waves in the …

Binary neutron star mergers: mass ejection, electromagnetic counterparts, and nucleosynthesis

D Radice, A Perego, K Hotokezaka… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a systematic numerical relativity study of the mass ejection and the associated
electromagnetic transients and nucleosynthesis from binary neutron star (NS) mergers. We …

Black holes, gravitational waves and fundamental physics: a roadmap

L Barack, V Cardoso, S Nissanke… - … and quantum gravity, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
AIM, UMR 7158, CEA/DRF, CNRS, Université Paris Diderot, Irfu/Service d'Astrophysique,
Centre de Saclay, FR-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Unveiling the gravitational universe at μ-Hz frequencies

A Sesana, N Korsakova, MA Sedda, V Baibhav… - Experimental …, 2021 - Springer
We propose a space-based interferometer surveying the gravitational wave (GW) sky in the
milli-Hz to μ-Hz frequency range. By the 2040s, the μ-Hz frequency band, bracketed in …

Black hole mergers in galactic nuclei induced by the eccentric Kozai–Lidov effect

BM Hoang, S Naoz, B Kocsis, FA Rasio… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Nuclear star clusters around a central massive black hole (MBH) are expected to be
abundant in stellar black hole (BH) remnants and BH–BH binaries. These binaries form a …

Numerical relativity simulations of the neutron star merger GW170817: long-term remnant evolutions, winds, remnant disks, and nucleosynthesis

V Nedora, S Bernuzzi, D Radice… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a systematic numerical relativity study of the dynamical ejecta, winds, and
nucleosynthesis in neutron star (NS) merger remnants. Binaries with the chirp mass …

Signatures of deconfined quark phases in binary neutron star mergers

A Prakash, D Radice, D Logoteta, A Perego, V Nedora… - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
We investigate the quark deconfinement phase transition in the context of binary neutron
star (BNS) mergers. We treat hadronic matter using a Brueckner-Hartree-Fock quantum …

Binary neutron star merger simulations with neutrino transport and turbulent viscosity: impact of different schemes and grid resolution

F Zappa, S Bernuzzi, D Radice… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We present a systematic numerical relativity study of the impact of different physics input and
grid resolution in binary neutron star mergers. We compare simulations employing a …