Electromagnetic counterparts to massive black-hole mergers

T Bogdanović, MC Miller, L Blecha - Living Reviews in Relativity, 2022 - Springer
The next two decades are expected to open the door to the first coincident detections of
electromagnetic (EM) and gravitational-wave (GW) signatures associated with massive …

Dynamics of galaxy cores and supermassive black holes

D Merritt - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent work on the dynamical evolution of galactic nuclei containing supermassive black
holes is reviewed. Topics include galaxy structural properties, collisionless and collisional …

Alignment of the spins of supermassive black holes prior to coalescence

T Bogdanović, CS Reynolds… - The Astrophysical …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent numerical relativistic simulations of black hole coalescence suggest that in certain
alignments the emission of gravitational radiation can produce a kick of several thousand …

Predicting the direction of the final spin from the coalescence of two black holes

E Barausse, L Rezzolla - The Astrophysical Journal, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
Knowledge of the spin of the black hole resulting from the merger of a generic black-hole
binary is of great importance for studying the cosmological evolution of supermassive black …

Hydrodynamical backflow in X-shaped radio galaxy PKS 2014− 55

WD Cotton, K Thorat, JJ Condon… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT We present MeerKAT 1.28 GHz total-intensity, polarization, and spectral-index
images covering the giant (projected length l≈ 1.57 Mpc) X-shaped radio source PKS …

The life cycle of radio galaxies in the LOFAR Lockman Hole field

N Jurlin, R Morganti, M Brienza, S Mandal… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
Radio galaxies are known to go through cycles of activity, where phases of apparent
quiescence can be followed by repeated activity of the central supermassive black hole. A …

Cataloguing the radio-sky with unsupervised machine learning: a new approach for the SKA era

TJ Galvin, MT Huynh, RP Norris… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We develop a new analysis approach towards identifying related radio components and
their corresponding infrared host galaxy based on unsupervised machine learning methods …

A giant radio galaxy with three cycles of episodic jet activity from LoTSS DR2

K Chavan, P Dabhade, DJ Saikia - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The excellent sensitivity and optimum resolution of LoTSS DR2 at 144 MHz has enabled us
to discover a giant radio galaxy (J1225+ 4011) with three distinct episodes of jet activity …

FIRST “Winged” and X-shaped radio source candidates

CC Cheung - The Astronomical Journal, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
A small number of double-lobed radio galaxies (17 from our own census of the literature)
show an additional pair of low surface brightness" wings," thus forming an overall X-shaped …

Observational evidence for binary black holes and active double nuclei

S Komossa - Memorie della Società Astronomica Italiana, v. 77 …, 2006 - adsabs.harvard.edu
I review the observational evidence for the presence of supermassive binary black holes in
galaxies and for the presence of active pairs of galaxies. According to hierarchical galaxy …