Impact of supermassive black hole growth on star formation

By C. Harrison. Nature Astronomy, 2017

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Supermassive black holes are found at the centres of massive galaxies. During the growth of these black holes they light up to become visible as active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and release extraordinary amounts of energy across the electromagnetic spectrum. This energy is widely believed to regulate the rate of star formation in the black holes’ host galaxies via so-called AGN feedback. However, the details of how and when this occurs remain uncertain from both an observational and theoretical perspective. I review some of the theoretical motivation and observational results and discuss possible observational signatures of the impact of supermassive black hole growth on star formation. Feedback from actively accreting supermassive black holes is thought to be important in the evolution of galaxies. Theoretical and observational results are reviewed with regard to the impact of this feedback on star formation in galaxies.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics

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• Cool outflows in galaxies and their implications (2020, background): “While the detection of ionized outflows at high redshift has been obtained for large samples of star-forming galaxies and AGNs (e.g. Steidel et al. 2010; Genzel et al. 2014; Cano-Dı́az et al. 2012; Carniani et al. 2015, 2017; Harrison 2017; Förster Schreiber et al. 2019), the detection of cold molec”
• AGN outflows and feedback twenty years on (2018, unknown): “Consequently, testing feedback models by observationally constraining the long-term negative and/or positive impact on star formation by AGN-driven outflows is an ongoing challenge, with many apparently contradictory results[86, 87].”