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astro-ph.GA2025

Identifying supermassive black hole recoil in elliptical galaxies

Alexander Rawlings, Atte Keitaanranta, Max Mattero +8

We study stellar core growth in simulations of merging massive () elliptical galaxies by a supermassive black hole (SMBH) displaced by gravitatio…

astro-ph.GA2024

The supermassive black hole merger driven evolution of high-redshift red nuggets into present-day cored early-type galaxies

Antti Rantala, Alexander Rawlings, Thorsten Naab +2

Very compact ( kpc) massive quiescent galaxies (red nuggets) are more abundant in the high-redshift Universe (-) than today. Their size evolution…

astro-ph.GA2022

The complex evolution of supermassive black holes in cosmological simulations

Peter H. Johansson, Matias Mannerkoski, Antti Rantala +4

We present here self-consistent zoom-in simulations of massive galaxies forming in a full cosmological setting. The simulations are run with an updated version of the KETJU code, w…

astro-ph.GA2023

Modelling the accretion and feedback of supermassive black hole binaries in gas-rich galaxy mergers

Shihong Liao, Peter H. Johansson, Matias Mannerkoski +6

We introduce a new model for the accretion and feedback of supermassive black hole (SMBH) binaries to the KETJU code, which enables us to resolve the evolution of SMBH binaries dow…

astro-ph.GA2022

Signatures of the Many Supermassive Black Hole Mergers in a Cosmologically Forming Massive Early-Type Galaxy

Matias Mannerkoski, Peter H. Johansson, Antti Rantala +3

We model here the merger histories of the supermassive black hole (SMBH) population in the late stages of a cosmological simulation of a galaxy grou…

astro-ph.IM2023

KETJU -- resolving small-scale supermassive black hole dynamics in GADGET-4

Matias Mannerkoski, Alexander Rawlings, Peter H. Johansson +5

We present the new public version of the KETJU supermassive black hole (SMBH) dynamics module, as implemented into GADGET-4. KETJU adds a small region around each SMBH where the dy…