Astrophysics with the laser interferometer space antenna

P Amaro-Seoane, J Andrews, M Arca Sedda… - Living Reviews in …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will be a transformative experiment
for gravitational wave astronomy, and, as such, it will offer unique opportunities to address …

The origins of massive black holes

M Volonteri, M Habouzit, M Colpi - Nature Reviews Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Massive black holes (MBHs) inhabit galactic centres, and power luminous quasars and
active galactic nuclei, shaping their cosmic environment with the energy they produce. The …

Circumbinary accretion: From binary stars to massive binary black holes

D Lai, DJ Muñoz - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
We review recent works on the dynamics of circumbinary accretion, including time variability,
angular momentum transfer between the disk and the binary, and the secular evolution of …

simba: Cosmological simulations with black hole growth and feedback

R Davé, D Anglés-Alcázar, D Narayanan… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We introduce the simba simulations, the next generation of the mufasa cosmological galaxy
formation simulations run with gizmo's meshless finite mass hydrodynamics. simba includes …

The assembly of the first massive black holes

K Inayoshi, E Visbal, Z Haiman - Annual Review of Astronomy …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The existence of∼ 109M⊙ supermassive black holes (SMBHs) within the first billion years
of the Universe has stimulated numerous ideas for the prompt formation and rapid growth of …

Relativistic jets from active galactic nuclei

R Blandford, D Meier… - Annual Review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
The nuclei of most normal galaxies contain supermassive black holes, which can accrete
gas through a disk and become active. These active galactic nuclei (AGNs) can form jets that …

Orbital evolution of binaries in circumbinary discs

M Siwek, R Weinberger… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We present the to-date largest parameter space exploration of binaries in circumbinary discs
(CBDs), deriving orbital evolution prescriptions for eccentric, unequal mass binaries from our …

Cosmic microwave background bounds on primordial black holes including dark matter halo accretion

PD Serpico, V Poulin, D Inman, K Kohri - Physical Review Research, 2020 - APS
Even if massive (10 M⊙≲ M≲ 10 4 M⊙) primordial black holes (PBHs) can only account for
a small fraction of the dark matter (DM) in the universe, they may still be responsible for a …

Obscured active galactic nuclei

RC Hickox, DM Alexander - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are powered by the accretion of material onto a supermassive
black hole (SMBH) and are among the most luminous objects in the Universe. However, the …

AGN outflows and feedback twenty years on

CM Harrison, T Costa, CN Tadhunter, A Flütsch… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
It is twenty years since the seminal works by Magorrian and co-authors and by Silk and
Rees, which, along with other related work, ignited an explosion of publications connecting …