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Ultraviolet diversity of Little Red Dots as a probe for direct-collapse black hole ages
Elia Cenci, Melanie Habouzit, Dale D. Kocevski
Little Red Dots (LRDs) uncovered by the James Webb Space Telescope have been proposed as candidate galaxies hosting embedded accreting direct-collapse black holes (DCBHs), yet the…
The LISA Astrophysics MBHcatalogues Project: A comparison of predictions of simulated massive black hole binaries
David Izquierdo-Villalba, Melanie Habouzit, Matteo Bonetti +67
In the hierarchical paradigm of galaxy formation, central massive black holes (MBHs) are expected to coalesce after the merger of their host galaxies. One of the main goals of the…
ASPIRE: The Environments and Dark Matter Halos of Luminous Quasars in the Epoch of Reionization
Feige Wang, Jaclyn B. Champagne, Jiamu Huang +42
We present a systematic study of the environments of 25 luminous quasars at from the ASPIRE program. Using JWST/NIRCam WFSS data, we identified 487 galaxies at $5.3 \less…
Evidence for Supermassive Black Hole Binaries
Martin G. H. Krause, Martin A. Bourne, Silke Britzen +10
We review the state of the evidence for the existence and observational appearance of supermassive black hole binaries. Such objects are expected from standard hierarchical galaxy…
Black Hole-Host Galaxy Correlations with Machine Learning: A Comparative Study of Illustris, TNG, and EAGLE
Jacob Reinheimer, Yuan Li, Trung Ha +3
Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are known to correlate with many properties of their host galaxies, but we do not fully understand these correlations. The strengths (tightness) of…
Little Red Dots as Direct-collapse Black Hole Nurseries
Elia Cenci, Melanie Habouzit
The James Webb Space Telescope recently uncovered a population of massive black holes (BHs) in the first billion years after the Big Bang. Among these high-redshift BH candidates,…
SHELLQs-JWST perspective on the intrinsic mass relation between supermassive black holes and their host galaxies at z > 6
John Silverman, Junyao Li, Xuheng Ding +36
The relation between the masses of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and their host galaxies encodes information on their mode of growth, especially at the earliest epochs. The Jame…
What drives the growth of black holes: a decade of progress
D. M. Alexander, R. C. Hickox, J. Aird +8
The last decade has witnessed significant progress in our understanding of the growth of super-massive black holes (SMBHs). It is now clear that an Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN: th…
Probing the co-evolution of SMBHs and their hosts from scaling relations pairwise residuals: dominance of stellar velocity dispersion and host halo mass
Francesco Shankar, Mariangela Bernardi, Daniel Roberts +17
The correlations between Supermassive Black Holes (SMBHs) and their host galaxies still defy our understanding from both the observational and theoretical perspectives. Here we per…
Large-scale dual AGN in large-scale cosmological hydrodynamical simulations
Clara Puerto-Sánchez, Melanie Habouzit, Marta Volonteri +10
Detecting dual active galactic nuclei (DAGN) in observations and understanding theoretically which massive black holes (MBHs) compose them and in which galactic and large-scale env…
A Quasar-Anchored Protocluster at z=6.6 in the ASPIRE Survey: II. An Environmental Analysis of Galaxy Properties in an Overdense Structure
Jaclyn B. Champagne, Feige Wang, Jinyi Yang +21
We present paper II comprising a 35 arcmin \textit{JWST}/NIRCam imaging and wide-field slitless spectroscopy mosaic centered on J03053150, a luminous quasar at . The…
A Post-Starburst Pathway for the Formation of Massive Galaxies and Black Holes at z>6
Masafusa Onoue, Xuheng Ding, John D. Silverman +45
Understanding the rapid formation of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in the early universe requires insight into stellar mass growth in host galaxies. Here, we present NIRSpec res…
Exploring Active Galactic Nuclei and Little Red Dots with the Obelisk simulation
M. Volonteri, M. Trebitsch, J. E. Greene +8
The James Webb Space telescope has discovered an abundant population of broad line emitters, typical signposts for Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). Many of these sources have red colo…
The First Billion Years, According to JWST
Angela Adamo, Hakim Atek, Micaela B. Bagley +46
With stunning clarity, JWST has revealed the Universe's first billion years. The scientific community is analyzing a wealth of JWST imaging and spectroscopic data from that era, an…
Is the James Webb Space Telescope detecting too many AGN candidates?
Melanie Habouzit
In less than two years of operation, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has already accelerated significantly our quest to identify active massive black holes (BHs) in the first…
A SPectroscopic survey of biased halos In the Reionization Era (ASPIRE): Impact of Galaxies on the CGM Metal Enrichment at z > 6 Using the JWST and VLT
Siwei Zou, Zheng Cai, Feige Wang +27
We characterize the multiphase circumgalactic medium and galaxy properties at z = 6.0-6.5 in four quasar fields from the James Webb Space Telescope A SPectroscopic survey of biased…
AGN X-ray luminosity function and absorption function in the Early Universe ()
E. Pouliasis, A. Ruiz, I. Georgantopoulos +15
The XLF of AGN offers a robust tool to study the evolution and the growth of SMBHs over cosmic time. Owing to the limited area probed by X-ray surveys, optical surveys are routinel…
Searching for the Highest-z Dual AGN in the Deepest Chandra Surveys
Brandon Sandoval, Adi Foord, Steven W. Allen +9
We present an analysis searching for dual AGN among 62 high-redshift () X-ray sources selected from publicly available deep Chandra fields. We aim to quantify the fr…
Surveying the onset and evolution of supermassive black holes at high-z with AXIS
Nico Cappelluti, Adi Foord, Stefano Marchesi +8
The nature and origin of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) remain an open matter of debate within the scientific community. While various theoretical scenarios have been proposed, e…
Tracking Supermassive Black Hole Mergers from kpc to sub-pc Scales with AXIS
Adi Foord, Nico Cappelluti, Tingting Liu +8
We present an analysis showcasing how the Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (AXIS), a proposed NASA Probe-class mission, will significantly increase our understanding of supermassiv…
Overview of the Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (AXIS)
Christopher S. Reynolds, Erin A. Kara, Richard F. Mushotzky +40
The Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (AXIS) is a Probe-class concept that will build on the legacy of the Chandra X-ray Observatory by providing low-background, arcsecond-resolutio…
Discovery and Characterization of Galactic-scale Dual Supermassive Black Holes Across Cosmic Time
Yue Shen, J. Andrew Casey-Clyde, Yu-Ching Chen +10
The hierarchical structure formation paradigm predicts the formation of pairs of supermassive black holes in merging galaxies. When both (or one) members of the SMBH pair are unobs…
Massive Black Hole Binaries as LISA Precursors in the Roman High Latitude Time Domain Survey
Zoltán Haiman, Chengcheng Xin, Tamara Bogdanović +27
With its capacity to observe faint active galactic nuclei (AGN) out to redshift , Roman is poised to reveal a population of b…
Mass-redshift dependency of Supermassive Black Hole Binaries for the Gravitational Wave Background
Musfar Muhamed Kozhikkal, Siyuan Chen, Gilles Theureau +2
Studying how the black hole (BH) - (galaxy) bulge mass relation evolves with redshift provides valuable insights into the co-evolution of supermassive black holes and their host ga…