Research Division Seminar
The Coevolution of Black Holes and Galaxies: A 10-Year Progress Report

Prof. Luis C. Ho

Resumen

Supermassive black holes are ubiquitous in galaxies and play a fundamental role in their life cycle. I will review observational progress in defining and refining the various empirical scaling relations between black hole masses and host galaxy properties. I will emphasize ways in which the intrinsic scatter of the scaling relations can be quantified, and present evidence that the scatter correlates with physical properties. I will describe how the scaling relations can be extended to active galaxies and summarize preliminary efforts to probe the evolution of these scaling relations with redshift. I will present new measurements of the cold ISM content in AGN host galaxies and constraints they place on currently popular models of AGN feedback. Lastly, I will discuss a new class of low-mass black holes in bulgeless and dwarf galaxies that serve as local analogs of seed supermassive black holes.

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The Coevolution of Black Holes and Galaxies: A 10-Year Progress Report
Prof. Luis C. Ho
The Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science, USA
Thursday April 26, 2012 - 0:00 GMT+1  (Aula)
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