The inner kiloparsec regions surrounding sub-Eddington (luminosity less than 10 -3 in Eddington units, L Edd) supermassive black holes (BHs) often show a...
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PublicationThe Accretion Mode in Sub-Eddington Supermassive Black Holes: Getting into the Central Parsecs of Andromeda
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PublicationThe Black Hole Mass-Color Relations for Early- and Late-type Galaxies: Red and Blue Sequences
The tight correlations between supermassive black hole (SMBH) mass (M BH) and the properties of the host galaxy have useful implications for our understanding...
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PublicationThe First Billion Years project: birthplaces of direct collapse black holes
We investigate the environment in which direct-collapse black holes may form by analysing a cosmological, hydrodynamical simulation that is part of the First...
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NewsThe Gran Telescopio Canarias finds the farthest black hole that belongs to a rare family of galaxies
An international team of astronomers has identified one of the rarest known classes of gamma-ray emitting galaxies, called BL Lacertae, within the first 2...
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PublicationThe miniJPAS survey: AGN and host galaxy coevolution of X-ray-selected sources
Studies indicate strong evidence of a scaling relation in the local Universe between the supermassive black hole mass (M BH) and the stellar mass of their host...
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NewsThe mystery of the runaway supermassive black hole, solved
A study carried out by a team of researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has shown that an unusual thin structure of stars, recently...
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PublicationThe spatially resolved broad line region of IRAS 09149-6206
We present new near-infrared VLTI/GRAVITY interferometric spectra that spatially resolve the broad Brγ emission line in the nucleus of the active galaxy IRAS...
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NewsThe structure of the famous Jet of material in M87, the brightest galaxy in the Virgo Cluster, revealed
A Master’s degree research project at the University of Barcelona (UB), carried out at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) by the student Alejandra...
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NewsThe “last breaths” in the lives of galaxies
A team of astronomers has discovered that galaxies with an Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) –hosting continuously growing black holes that emit large amounts of...