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 ($M_{\star }>10^{11}{\mathrm{M}}_{\odot }$) elliptical galaxies by a supermassive black hole (SMBH) displaced by gravitatio…