Can gas dynamics in centres of galaxies reveal orbiting massive black holes?
arXiv:astro-ph/0601392 · doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10016.x
Abstract
If supermassive black holes in centres of galaxies form by merging of black-hole remnants of massive Population III stars, then there should be a few black holes of mass one or two orders of magnitude smaller than that of the central ones, orbiting around the centre of a typical galaxy. These black holes constitute a weak perturbation in the gravitational potential, which can generate wave phenomena in gas within a disc close to the centre of the galaxy. Here we show that a single orbiting black hole generates a three-arm spiral pattern in the central gaseous disc. The density excess in the spiral arms in the disc reaches values of 3-12% when the orbiting black hole is about ten times less massive than the central black hole. Therefore the observed density pattern in gas can be used as a signature in detecting the most massive orbiting black holes.
arXiv commentaccepted by MNRAS, 8 pages, 4 figures
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