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A candidate sub-parsec binary black hole in the Seyfert galaxy NGC 7674
Preeti Kharb, Dharam Vir Lal, David Merritt
The existence of binary supermassive black holes (SBHs) is predicted by models of hierarchical galaxy formation. To date, only a single binary SBH has been imaged, at a projected s…
Cosmology and Convention
David Merritt
I argue that some important elements of the current cosmological model are "conventionalist" in the sense defined by Karl Popper. These elements include dark matter and dark energy…
Considerations on how to investigate planes of satellite galaxies
Marcel S. Pawlowski, Jörg Dabringhausen, Benoit Famaey +11
The existence of a spatially thin, kinematically coherent Disk of Satellites (DoS) around the Milky Way (MW), is a problem that often garners vivacious debate in the literature or…
Evolution Of Binary Supermassive Black Holes In Rotating Nuclei
Alexander Rasskazov, David Merritt
Interaction of a binary supermassive black hole with stars in a galactic nucleus can result in changes to all the elements of the binary's orbit, including the angles that define i…
On the origins of enigmatic stellar populations in Local Group galactic nuclei
Nathan W. C. Leigh, Fabio Antonini, Nicholas C. Stone +2
We consider the origins of enigmatic stellar populations in four Local Group galactic nuclei, specifically the Milky Way, M31, M32 and M33. These are centrally concentrated blue st…
Evolution Of Massive Black Hole Binaries In Rotating Stellar Nuclei: Implications For Gravitational Wave Detection
Alexander Rasskazov, David Merritt
We compute the isotropic gravitational wave (GW) background produced by binary supermassive black holes (SBHs) in galactic nuclei. In our model, massive binaries evolve at early ti…