most citedThe two phases of core formation -- orbital evolution in the centres of ellipticals with supermassive black hole binaries

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The two phases of core formation -- orbital evolution in the centres of ellipticals with supermassive black hole binaries

Matteo Frigo, Thorsten Naab, Antti Rantala +4

The flat stellar density cores of massive elliptical galaxies form rapidly due to sinking supermassive black holes (SMBH) in gas-poor galaxy mergers. After the SMBHs form a bound b…