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most citedThe origins of massive black holes

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astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 1 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 9 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 3 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 5 cited

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…