Accretion on massive black holes in galactic nuclei

Nature ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 280 (5719) ◽  
pp. 214-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. G. GURZADYAN ◽  
L. M. OZERNOY
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Galactic Nuclei ◽  
Massive Black Holes

Spherical accretion of massive black holes: A model for galactic nuclei

1981 ◽  
Vol 1 (13) ◽  
pp. 67-70
Author(s):  
L. Maraschi ◽  
G.C. Perola ◽  
A. Treves
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Galactic Nuclei ◽  
Massive Black Holes

scholarly journals Study of the Galactic Center with a High Resolution Gamma Ray Telescope

1989 ◽  
Vol 136 ◽  
pp. 639-643
Author(s):  
Ervin J. Fenyves ◽  
Stephen N. Balog ◽  
David B. Cline ◽  
M. Atac
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Active Galactic Nuclei ◽  
Gamma Ray ◽  
Galactic Center ◽  
Galactic Nuclei ◽  
Seyfert Galaxies ◽  
Hole Formation ◽  
Massive Black Holes ◽  
General Outcome ◽  
Enormous Amount

It is generally accepted that massive black holes are the most likely source for the energy radiated from active galactic nuclei, and may explain the enormous amount of energy emitted by quasars, radio galaxies, Seyfert galaxies, and BL Lacertid objects. Although the detailed mechanisms of the black hole formation in galactic nuclei are not clear at present, it seems to be quite possible that the formation of massive black holes is a general outcome of the evolution of galactic nuclei.

Magnetic field and radius of the innermost stable circular orbit near super-massive black holes in active galactic nuclei

2015 ◽  
Vol 336 (10) ◽  
pp. 1013-1016 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Yu. Piotrovich ◽  
Yu. N. Gnedin ◽  
N. A. Silant'ev ◽  
T. M. Natsvlishvili ◽  
S. D. Buliga
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Black Holes ◽  
Active Galactic Nuclei ◽  
Circular Orbit ◽  
Galactic Nuclei ◽  
Massive Black Holes ◽  
Stable Circular Orbit ◽  
Innermost Stable Circular Orbit

scholarly journals 10.9. Dynamical constraints on alternatives to massive black holes in galactic nuclei

1998 ◽  
Vol 184 ◽  
pp. 447-448
Author(s):  
Eyal Maoz
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Galactic Nuclei ◽  
Compelling Evidence ◽  
Massive Black Holes ◽  
Nearby Galaxies ◽  
Dynamical Constraints

There is now compelling evidence for massive dark objects at the centers of severals galaxies. The possibility that these are black holes (BHs) fits well into the picture where quasars and AGNs are powered by accretion onto a massive BH, so that dead quasar engines should be hiding in many nearby galaxies.

scholarly journals THE SPATIAL CLUSTERING OFROSATALL-SKY SURVEY ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI. IV. MORE MASSIVE BLACK HOLES RESIDE IN MORE MASSIVE DARK MATTER HALOS

2015 ◽  
Vol 815 (1) ◽  
pp. 21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mirko Krumpe ◽  
Takamitsu Miyaji ◽  
Bernd Husemann ◽  
Nikos Fanidakis ◽  
Alison L. Coil ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Dark Matter ◽  
Active Galactic Nuclei ◽  
Spatial Clustering ◽  
Galactic Nuclei ◽  
Dark Matter Halos ◽  
Massive Black Holes ◽  
Sky Survey

scholarly journals Do stellar-mass and super-massive black holes have similar dining habits?

2020 ◽  
Vol 638 ◽  
pp. A100
Author(s):  
R. Arcodia ◽  
G. Ponti ◽  
A. Merloni ◽  
K. Nandra
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Galactic Nuclei ◽  
Mean Value ◽  
Stellar Mass ◽  
Scale Invariant ◽  
Massive Black Holes ◽  
Mass Scaling ◽  
Power Law Index ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Over the years, numerous attempts have been made to connect the phenomenology and physics of mass accretion onto stellar-mass and super-massive black holes in a scale-invariant fashion. In this paper, we explore this connection at the radiatively efficient (and non-jetted) end of accretion modes by comparing the relationship between the luminosity of the accretion disc and corona in the two source classes. Motivated by the apparently tight relationship between these two quantities in active galactic nuclei (AGNs), we analyse 458 RXTE-PCA archival observations of the X-ray binary (XRB) GX 339–4, using this object as an exemplar for the properties of XRBs in general. We focus on the soft and soft-intermediate states, which have been suggested to be analogous to radiatively efficient AGNs. The observed scatter in the log Ldisc − log Lcorona relationship of GX 339–4 is high (∼0.43 dex) and significantly larger than in a representative sample of radiatively efficient, non- or weakly jetted AGNs (∼0.30 dex). At first glance, this would appear contrary to the hypothesis that the systems simply scale with mass. On the other hand, we also find that GX 339–4 and our AGN sample show different accretion rate and power-law index distributions, with the latter in particular being broader in GX 339–4 (dispersion of ∼0.16 cf. ∼0.08 for AGN). GX 339–4 also shows an overall softer slope, with a mean value of ∼2.20 as opposed to ∼2.07 for the AGN sample. Remarkably, once similarly broad Γ and ṁ distributions are selected, the AGN sample overlaps nicely with GX 339–4 observations in the mass-normalised log Ldisc − log Lcorona plane, with a scatter of ∼0.30 − 0.33 dex in both cases. This indicates that a mass-scaling of properties might hold after all, with our results being consistent with the disc-corona systems in AGNs and XRBs exhibiting the same physical processes, albeit under different conditions for instance in terms of temperature, optical depth and/or electron energy distribution in the corona, heating-cooling balance, coronal geometry and/or black hole spin.

scholarly journals Star formation in accretion discs and SMBH growth

2020 ◽  
Vol 493 (3) ◽  
pp. 3732-3743 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander J Dittmann ◽  
M Coleman Miller
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Star Formation ◽  
Active Galactic Nuclei ◽  
Accretion Rate ◽  
High Redshift ◽  
Galactic Nuclei ◽  
Compact Objects ◽  
Accretion Discs ◽  
Massive Black Holes ◽  
Gas Accretion

ABSTRACT Accretion discs around active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are potentially unstable to star formation at large radii. We note that when the compact objects formed from some of these stars spiral into the central supermassive black hole (SMBH), there is no radiative feedback and therefore the accretion rate is not limited by radiation forces. Using a set of accretion disc models, we calculate the accretion rate on to the central SMBH in both gas and compact objects. We find that the time-scale for an SMBH to double in mass can decrease by factors ranging from ∼0.7 to as low as ∼0.1 in extreme cases, compared to gas accretion alone. Our results suggest that the formation of extremely massive black holes at high redshift may occur without prolonged super-Eddington gas accretion or very massive seed black holes. We comment on potential observational signatures as well as implications for other observations of AGNs.

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