Astrophysics with the laser interferometer space antenna

P Amaro-Seoane, J Andrews, M Arca Sedda… - Living Reviews in …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will be a transformative experiment
for gravitational wave astronomy, and, as such, it will offer unique opportunities to address …

Coevolution (or not) of supermassive black holes and host galaxies

J Kormendy, LC Ho - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2013 - annualreviews.org
Supermassive black holes (BHs) have been found in 85 galaxies by dynamical modeling of
spatially resolved kinematics. The Hubble Space Telescope revolutionized BH research by …

A comprehensive measurement of the local value of the Hubble constant with 1 km s− 1 Mpc− 1 uncertainty from the Hubble Space Telescope and the SH0ES team

AG Riess, W Yuan, LM Macri, D Scolnic… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We report observations from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) of Cepheid variables in the
host galaxies of 42 Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) used to calibrate the Hubble constant (H 0) …

[HTML][HTML] The NANOGrav 15 yr data set: Constraints on supermassive black hole binaries from the gravitational-wave background

G Agazie, A Anumarlapudi, AM Archibald… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The NANOGrav 15 yr data set shows evidence for the presence of a low-frequency
gravitational-wave background (GWB). While many physical processes can source such low …

Simulations of the formation, evolution and clustering of galaxies and quasars

V Springel, SDM White, A Jenkins, CS Frenk… - nature, 2005 - nature.com
The cold dark matter model has become the leading theoretical picture for the formation of
structure in the Universe. This model, together with the theory of cosmic inflation, makes a …

Energy input from quasars regulates the growth and activity of black holes and their host galaxies

T Di Matteo, V Springel, L Hernquist - nature, 2005 - nature.com
In the early Universe, while galaxies were still forming, black holes as massive as a billion
solar masses powered quasars. Supermassive black holes are found at the centres of most …

The Dark Energy Survey: more than dark energy–an overview

Dark Energy Survey Collaboration:… - Monthly Notices of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
This overview paper describes the legacy prospect and discovery potential of the Dark
Energy Survey (DES) beyond cosmological studies, illustrating it with examples from the …

The coevolution of galaxies and supermassive black holes: insights from surveys of the contemporary universe

TM Heckman, PN Best - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2014 - annualreviews.org
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 …

Revisiting the scaling relations of black hole masses and host galaxy properties

NJ McConnell, CP Ma - The Astrophysical Journal, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
New kinematic data and modeling efforts in the past few years have substantially expanded
and revised dynamical measurements of black hole masses (M•) at the centers of nearby …

Active galactic nuclei: what's in a name?

P Padovani, DM Alexander, RJ Assef… - The Astronomy and …, 2017 - Springer
Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are energetic astrophysical sources powered by accretion onto
supermassive black holes in galaxies, and present unique observational signatures that …