Analysis of Kozai Cycles in Equal-Mass Hierarchical Triple Supermassive Black Hole Mergers in the Presence of a Stellar Cluster

Wei Hao, M. B. N. Kouwenhoven, Rainer Spurzem +3

Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) play an important role in galaxy evolution. Binary and triple SMBHs can form after galaxy mergers. A third SMBH may accelerate the SMBH merging pro…