On the Straight and Narrow: How Black Hole Seeds Agree with Scaling Relations
How are the masses of growing black holes in the early universe are correlated with properties of their host galaxies? Read on to see what today’s authors found!
Gravitational Lensing Unveils an Ultramassive Black Hole In the Heart of Abell 1201
Measuring the mass of black holes in the centers of far away galaxies can be tricky, but today’s paper demonstrates the viability of a new method in this field: gravitational lensing!
Putting Supermassive Black Holes on the Scale
A novel approach to estimate their mass may help reveal the relationship between supermassive black holes and the galaxies they inhabit.
Mind your Biases: selection bias in super-massive black hole samples
Biased supermassive black hole samples may compromise well-known black hole-galaxy scaling relations.
Adding a 3rd Dimension to Galaxy Group Studies
Need to improve a relationship between 2 parameters? Why not try adding a 3rd!
More Than Meets the Eye: Cluster Scaling Relations
The authors of this analysis use the largest, high-resolution cosmological N-body simulation to date, the Millennium-XXL, to investigate sources of scatter in cluster scaling relations. They find that a wide range of biases can affect the most commonly used scaling relations.