14 papers
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…
Learning the Universe at High Redshifts: Impact of Accretion Modeling on Early Black Hole Growth
Jonathan Kho, Aklant K. Bhowmick, Rainer Weinberger +8
JWST discoveries of the earliest () supermassive black holes (BHs, ) challenge the BH seeding and accretion models of most cosmol…
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…
The DREAMS Project: Disentangling the Impact of Halo-to-Halo Variance and Baryonic Feedback on Milky Way Dark Matter Density Profiles
Alex M. Garcia, Jonah C. Rose, Paul Torrey +23
In this work, we utilize a new suite of Milky Way-mass halos from the DREAMS Project, simulated with Cold Dark Matter (CDM), to quantify the influence of baryon feedback and intrin…
First results of AMBRA: Abundant Seeds and Early Mergers as a Pathway to the First Massive Black Holes
Yihao Zhou, Aklant Kumar Bhowmick, Tiziana Di Matteo +6
AMBRA combines the large cosmological volume and statistical power of ASTRID with the physically motivated gas-based black hole seeding models from BRAHMA. Motivated by JWST's disc…
From ASTRID to BRAHMA -- The role of overmassive black holes in little red dots in cosmological simulations
Patrick LaChance, Aklant Kumar Bhowmick, Rupert A. C. Croft +8
We leverage the overmassive black holes () present in a realization of the BRAHMA cosmological hydrodynamic simulation suite to investigate their ro…