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The Connection Between the Growth of Massive Black Holes and Their Dynamical Histories
Lee A. Whitaker, Michael Tremmel, Angelo Ricarte +1
Massive black holes (MBHs) grow through both gas accretion and mergers and it remains unclear how variations to MBH growth and dynamical histories contribute to the spread in empir…
Overmassive No More: The Case for Little Red Dots Hosting Black Hole Seeds as Massive as Single Supermassive Stars
Wendy Q. Sun, Rohan P. Naidu, Hanpu Liu +17
Little Red Dots (LRDs) display singular properties unlike any known class of AGN or galaxies, motivating novel mass estimators for their central engines. Inspired by their similari…
The Road to Normalcy: Environment-Driven Evolutionary Pathways for Primordial Black Holes
Saiyang Zhang, Junehyoung Jeon, Boyuan Liu +2
We investigate how cosmological environment regulates the evolution of primordial black hole (PBH) seeds in the early universe using a suite of hydrodynamical simulations. Unlike t…
Supermassive Black Hole Assembly from Heavy Seeds with Dynamical Friction in the BRAHMA Simulations: Implications for JWST, LISA, and the Local Universe
Aklant K. Bhowmick, Laura Blecha, Paul Torrey +8
The JWST discoveries of supermassive black holes (BHs) at may provide key insights into their seeding origins. Using new BRAHMA cosmological sim…
Bridging Scales in Black Hole Accretion and Feedback: Subgrid Prescription from First Principles
Hyerin Cho, Ben S. Prather, Ramesh Narayan +4
Understanding how supermassive black holes (BHs) couple to their host galaxies across a vast spatial and temporal dynamic range remains a central challenge in galaxy evolution. Usi…
Little Red Dot Host Galaxy Black Hole Star: A Gas-Enshrouded Heart at the Center of Every Little Red Dot
Wendy Q. Sun, Rohan P. Naidu, Jorryt Matthee +30
The central engines of Little Red Dots (LRDs) may be ``black hole stars" (BH*s), early stages of black hole growth characterized by dense gas envelopes. So far, the most direct evi…
Bridging scales: Modeling suppressed Bondi accretion on black holes and its impact on galaxy growth
Antonio J. Porras-Valverde, Priyamvada Natarajan, Angelo Ricarte +4
The accretion and feedback processes governing supermassive black hole (SMBH) growth span an enormous range of spatial scales, from the Event Horizon to the circumgalactic medium.…
Bridging scales: How much do supermassive black holes grow in the suppressed Bondi regime?
Kung-Yi Su, Angelo Ricarte, Priyamvada Natarajan +6
The co-evolution of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and their host galaxies remains one of the central open questions in cosmology, rooted in the coupling between accretion, feedb…
A GLIMPSE of Intermediate Mass Black holes in the epoch of reionization: Witnessing the Descendants of Direct Collapse?
Qinyue Fei, Seiji Fujimoto, Rohan P. Naidu +17
JWST has revealed an abundance of supermassive black holes (BHs) in the early Universe, and yet the lowest mass seed black holes that gave rise to these populations remain elusive.…
Evolutionary Tracks and Spectral Properties of Quasi-stars and Their Correlation with Little Red Dots
Andrew D. Santarelli, Ebraheem Farag, Earl P. Bellinger +4
JWST has revealed a population of red, compact, high-redshift () objects referred to as ``Little Red Dots'' (LRDs). These objects exhibit unusual spectral features rem…
The Infinity Galaxy: a Candidate Direct-Collapse Supermassive Black Hole Between Two Massive, Ringed Nuclei
Pieter van Dokkum, Gabriel Brammer, Josephine F. W. Baggen +3
We report the discovery of an unusual z=1.14 object, dubbed the galaxy, in JWST imaging of the COSMOS field. Its rest-frame near-IR light is dominated by two compact nucle…
Tracking the assembly of supermassive black holes: a comparison of diverse models across cosmic time
Antonio J. Porras-Valverde, Angelo Ricarte, Priyamvada Natarajan +3
Galaxies grow alongside their central supermassive black holes (SMBHs), linked through fueling and feedback. However, the origins and details of this co-evolution remain unclear an…
A "Black Hole Star" Reveals the Remarkable Gas-Enshrouded Hearts of the Little Red Dots
Rohan P. Naidu, Jorryt Matthee, Harley Katz +48
The physical processes that led to the formation of billion solar mass black holes within the first 700 million years of cosmic time remain a puzzle. Several theoretical scenarios…
Dwarf Active Galactic Nuclei from Variability for the Origins of Seeds (DAVOS): Properties of Variability-Selected AGNs in the Dark Energy Survey Deep Fields
Yichen Liu, Colin J. Burke, Diego Miura +4
We study the black hole mass host galaxy stellar mass relation, , for a sample of 706 and optically-variable active galac…
Modeling Cosmic Rays at AGN Jet-Driven Shock Fronts
Kung-Yi Su, Greg L. Bryan, Philip F. Hopkins +4
Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) feedback is a key physical mechanism proposed to regulate star formation, primarily in massive galaxies. In particular, cosmic rays associated with AGN…
HST Observations within the Sphere of Influence of the Powerful Supermassive Black Hole in PKS0745-191
Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo, Hyunseop Choi, Minghao Guo +18
We present Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph observations from the Hubble Space Telescope of the supermassive black hole (SMBH) at the center of PKS0745-191, a brightest cluster…
BASS XLV: Quantifying AGN Selection Effects in the Chandra COSMOS-Legacy Survey with BASS
Yarone M. Tokayer, Michael J. Koss, C. Megan Urry +11
Deep extragalactic X-ray surveys, such as the Chandra COSMOS-Legacy field (CCLS), are prone to be biased against active galactic nuclei (AGN) with high column densities due to thei…
Demographics of black holes at 100 R scales: accretion flows, jets, and shadows
Dhanya G. Nair, Neil M. Nagar, Venkatessh Ramakrishnan +87
Using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), the gravitationally lensed rings around the supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in Messier 87 (M87) and Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) have now been…
Episodic super-Eddington accretion as a clue to Overmassive Black Holes in the early Universe
Alessandro Trinca, Rosa Valiante, Raffaella Schneider +7
Early JWST observations are providing growing evidence for a ubiquitous population of accreting supermassive black holes (BHs) at high redshift, many of which appear overmassive co…
The redshift evolution of the scaling relation: new insights from cosmological simulations and semi-analytic models
Shashank Dattathri, Priyamvada Natarajan, Antonio J. Porras-Valverde +4
We study the co-evolution of black holes (BHs) and their host galaxies in the ASTRID and Illustris-TNG300 cosmological simulations and the Dark Sage Semi-Analytic Model (SAM), focu…
Bridging Scales: Coupling the galactic nucleus to the larger cosmic environment
Kung-Yi Su, Priyamvada Natarajan, Hyerin Cho +4
Coupling black hole (BH) feeding and feedback involves interactions across vast spatial and temporal scales that is computationally challenging. Tracking gas inflows and outflows f…
Multi-wavelength constraints on the local black hole occupation fraction
Colin J. Burke, Priyamvada Natarajan, Vivienne F. Baldassare +1
The fraction of dwarf galaxies hosting central, intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) at low redshifts is an important observational probe of black hole seeding at high redshift. D…
Astrometric Jitter as a Detection Diagnostic for Recoiling and Slingshot Supermassive Black Hole Candidates
Anavi Uppal, Charlotte Ward, Suvi Gezari +4
Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) can be ejected from their galactic centers due to gravitational wave recoil or the slingshot mechanism following a galaxy merger. If an ejected SMB…
Overmassive black holes at cosmic noon: linking the local and the high-redshift Universe
Mar Mezcua, Fabio Pacucci, Hyewon Suh +2
We report for the first time a sample of 12 supermassive black holes (SMBHs) hosted by low-mass galaxies at cosmic noon, i.e., in a redshift range consistent with the peak of star…