AGNs Reveal How Black Holes Embedded In Gas Become Full of Themselves
Abstract
The masses of the black holes LIGO detected and the rate at which they merge are larger than expected. Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) disks are a promising environment to boost the masses and rates of merger of black holes. I ran hydrodynamic simulations of a uniform gas disk to study how embedded bodies interact with the gas. My goal is to establish how effective AGN disks are at bringing orbiting black holes together.
- Publication:
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American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #233
- Pub Date:
- January 2019
- Bibcode:
- 2019AAS...23336917M