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 …

Introducing the TNG-Cluster simulation: Overview and the physical properties of the gaseous intracluster medium

D Nelson, A Pillepich, M Ayromlou, W Lee… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
We introduce the new TNG-Cluster project, an addition to the IllustrisTNG suite of
cosmological magnetohydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation. Our objective is to …

[HTML][HTML] Feedback from active galactic nuclei in galaxy groups

D Eckert, M Gaspari, F Gastaldello, AMC Le Brun… - Universe, 2021 - mdpi.com
The co-evolution between supermassive black holes and their environment is most directly
traced by the hot atmospheres of dark matter halos. The cooling of the hot atmosphere …

Supermassive black holes in cosmological simulations I: MBHM relation and black hole mass function

M Habouzit, Y Li, RS Somerville, S Genel… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The past decade has seen significant progress in understanding galaxy formation and
evolution using large-scale cosmological simulations. While these simulations produce …

Introducing romulusc: a cosmological simulation of a galaxy cluster with an unprecedented resolution

M Tremmel, TR Quinn, A Ricarte, A Babul… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We present the first results from romulusc, the highest resolution cosmological
hydrodynamic simulation of a galaxy cluster run to date. romulusc, a zoom-in simulation of a …

[HTML][HTML] Simulating groups and the intragroup medium: the surprisingly complex and rich middle ground between clusters and galaxies

BD Oppenheimer, A Babul, Y Bahé, IS Butsky… - Universe, 2021 - mdpi.com
Galaxy groups are more than an intermediate scale between clusters and halos hosting
individual galaxies, they are crucial laboratories capable of testing a range of astrophysics …

[HTML][HTML] Scaling properties of galaxy groups

L Lovisari, S Ettori, M Gaspari, PA Giles - Universe, 2021 - mdpi.com
Galaxy groups and poor clusters are more common than rich clusters, and host the largest
fraction of matter content in the Universe. Hence, their studies are key to understand the …

A 40 billion solar-mass black hole in the extreme core of Holm 15A, the central galaxy of Abell 85

K Mehrgan, J Thomas, R Saglia… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
A 40 Billion Solar-mass Black Hole in the Extreme Core of Holm 15A, the Central Galaxy of Abell
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Revealing Hidden Substructures in the MBH–σ Diagram, and Refining the Bend in the L–σ Relation

N Sahu, AW Graham, BL Davis - The Astrophysical Journal, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Using 145 early-and late-type galaxies (ETGs and LTGs) with directly measured
supermassive black hole masses, M BH, we build upon our previous discoveries that:(i) …

The X-ray halo scaling relations of supermassive black holes

M Gaspari, D Eckert, S Ettori, P Tozzi… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We carry out a comprehensive Bayesian correlation analysis between hot halos and direct
masses of supermassive black holes (SMBHs), by retrieving the X-ray plasma properties …