The quest for dual and binary supermassive black holes: A multi-messenger view

A De Rosa, C Vignali, T Bogdanović, PR Capelo… - New Astronomy …, 2019 - Elsevier
The quest for binary and dual supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at the dawn of the multi-
messenger era is compelling. Detecting dual active galactic nuclei (AGN)–active SMBHs at …

Cosmic X-ray surveys of distant active galaxies: The demographics, physics, and ecology of growing supermassive black holes

WN Brandt, DM Alexander - The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, 2015 - Springer
We review results from cosmic X-ray surveys of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) over the past
≈ 15≈ 15 years that have dramatically improved our understanding of growing …

Universal bolometric corrections for active galactic nuclei over seven luminosity decades

F Duras, A Bongiorno, F Ricci, E Piconcelli… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
Context. The AGN bolometric correction is a key element for understanding black hole (BH)
demographics and computing accurate BH accretion histories from AGN luminosities …

The ASTRID simulation: the evolution of supermassive black holes

Y Ni, T Di Matteo, S Bird, R Croft, Y Feng… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We present the evolution of black holes (BHs) and their relationship with their host galaxies
in Astrid, a large-volume cosmological hydrodynamical simulation with box size 250 h …

x-cigale: fitting AGN/galaxy SEDs from X-ray to infrared

G Yang, M Boquien, V Buat, D Burgarella… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT Code Investigating GALaxy Emission (cigale) is a powerful multiwavelength
spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting code for extragalactic studies. However, the current …

Bubbles and outflows: The novel JWST/NIRSpec view of the z= 1.59 obscured quasar XID2028

G Cresci, G Tozzi, M Perna, M Brusa… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Quasar feedback in the form of powerful outflows is invoked as a key mechanism to quench
star formation in galaxies, although direct observational evidence is still scarce and debated …

The Illustris simulation: the evolving population of black holes across cosmic time

D Sijacki, M Vogelsberger, S Genel… - Monthly Notices of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We study the properties of black holes and their host galaxies across cosmic time in the
Illustris simulation. Illustris is a large-scale cosmological hydrodynamical simulation which …

The close environments of accreting massive black holes are shaped by radiative feedback

C Ricci, B Trakhtenbrot, MJ Koss, Y Ueda… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
The majority of the accreting supermassive black holes in the Universe are obscured by
large columns of gas and dust,,. The location and evolution of this obscuring material have …

The cosmic evolution of massive black holes in the Horizon-AGN simulation

M Volonteri, Y Dubois, C Pichon… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
We analyse the demographics of black holes (BHs) in the large-volume cosmological
hydrodynamical simulation Horizon-AGN. This simulation statistically models how much gas …

A physical model of the broad-band continuum of AGN and its implications for the UV/X relation and optical variability

A Kubota, C Done - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We develop a new spectral model for the broad-band spectral energy distribution (SED) of
active galactic nuclei (AGN). This includes an outer standard disc, an inner warm …