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Pairing of Supermassive Black Holes in unequal-mass mergers
S. Callegari, L. Mayer, S. Kazantzidis
Disk galaxies with a spheroidal component are known to host Supermassive Black Holes (SMBHs) in their center. Unequal-mass galaxy mergers have been rarely studied despite the fact…
Formation of Nuclear Disks and Supermassive Black Hole Binaries in Multi-Scale Hydrodynamical Galaxy Mergers
Lucio Mayer, Stelios Kazantzidis, Andres Escala
(Abridged) We review the results of the first multi-scale, hydrodynamical simulations of mergers between galaxies with central supermassive black holes (SMBHs) to investigate the f…
Birth of massive black hole binaries
M. Colpi, M. Dotti, L. Mayer +1
If massive black holes (BHs) are ubiquitous in galaxies and galaxies experience multiple mergers during their cosmic assembly, then BH binaries should be common albeit temporary fe…
Rapid Formation of Supermassive Black Hole Binaries in Galaxy Mergers with Gas
Lucio Mayer, Stelios Kazantzidis, Piero Madau +3
Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are a ubiquitous component of the nuclei of galaxies. It is normally assumed that, following the merger of two massive galaxies, a SMBH binary will…
Galaxies and Overmerging: What Does it Take to Destroy a Satellite Galaxy?
Stelios Kazantzidis, Ben Moore, Lucio Mayer
The Ultra Compact Dwarf (UCD) galaxies recently discovered in the Fornax and Virgo clusters exhibit structural similarity to the dense nuclei of nucleated dEs indicating that the p…