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Supermassive black holes: Coevolution (or not) of black holes and host galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 July 2013

John Kormendy
John Kormendy*
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA; Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik, Garching bei München, Germany; Universitäts-Sternwarte, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Germany; email: kormendy@astro.as.utexas.edu
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Supermassive black holes (BHs) have been found in 75 galaxies by observing spatially resolved dynamics. The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) revolutionized BH work by advancing the subject from its ‘proof of concept’ phase into quantitative studies of BH demographics. Most influential was the discovery of a tight correlation between BH masses M• and the velocity dispersions σ of stars in the host galaxy bulge components at radii where the stars mostly feel each other and not the BH. Together with correlations between M• and bulge luminosity, with the ‘missing light’ that defines galaxy cores, and with numbers of globular clusters, this has led to the conclusion that BHs and bulges coevolve by regulating each other's growth. This simple picture with one set of correlations for all galaxies dominated BH work in the past decade.

New results are now replacing the above, simple story with a richer and more plausible picture in which BHs correlate differently with different kinds of galaxy components. BHs with masses of 105—106M⊙ live in some bulgeless galaxies. So classical (merger-built) bulges are not necessary equipment for BH formation. On the other hand, while they live in galaxy disks, BHs do not correlate with galaxy disks or with disk-grown pseudobulges. They also have no special correlation with dark matter halos beyond the fact that halo gravity controls galaxy formation. This leads to the suggestion that there are two modes of BH feeding, (1) local, secular and episodic feeding of small BHs in largely bulgeless galaxies that involves too little energy feedback to drive BH–host-galaxy coevolution and (2) global feeding in major galaxy mergers that rapidly grows giant BHs in short-duration events whose energy feedback does affect galaxy formation. After these quasar-like phases, maintenance-mode BH feedback into hot, X-ray-emitting gas continues to have a primarily negative effect in preventing late-time star formation when cold gas or gas-rich galaxies get accreted. Finally, the highest-mass galaxies inherit coevolution effects from smaller galaxies; the tightness of their BH correlations is caused mainly by averaging during dissipationless major mergers.

Keywords

black hole physicsgalaxies: bulgesgalaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cDgalaxies: evolutiongalaxies: kinematics and dynamicsgalaxies: structureX-rays: galaxies
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Contributed Papers
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Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 8 , Symposium S295: The intriguing life of massive galaxies , August 2012 , pp. 241 - 256
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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2013 

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