2 papers
astro-ph.GA2026
Too many or too massive? Investigating the high- demography of active SMBHs from JWST
Daniel Roberts, Francesco Shankar, Vieri Cammelli +12
Recent JWST observations have unveiled a numerous population of low-luminosity active galactic nuclei (AGN) at , with space densities roughly an order of magnitude above p…
astro-ph.CO2025
Semi-empirical Framework of Supermassive Black Hole Evolution: Highlighting a possible tension between Demographics and Gravitational Wave Background
Andrea Lapi, Francesco Shankar, Michele Bosi +4
The evolution of the supermassive Black Hole (BH) population across cosmic times remains a central unresolved issue in modern astrophysics, due to the many noticeable uncertainties…