Black hole evolution – I. Supernova-regulated black hole growth

By Y. Dubois, M. Volonteri, J. Silk, J. Devriendt, A. Slyz, Romain Teyssier. 2015

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The growth of a supermassive black hole (BH) is determined by how much gas the host galaxy is able to feed it, which in turn is controlled by the cosmic environment, through galaxy mergers and accretion of cosmic flows that time how galaxies obtain their gas, but also by internal processes in the galaxy, such as star formation and feedback from stars and the BH itself. In this paper, we study the growth of a 10 12 M⊙ halo at z = 2, which is the progenitor of an archetypical group of galaxies at z = 0, and of its central BH by means of a high-resolution zoomed cosmological simulation, the Seth simulation. We study the evolution of the BH driven by the accretion of cold gas in the galaxy, and explore the efficiency of the feedback from supernovae (SNe). For a relatively inefficient energy input from SNe, the BH grows at the Eddington rate from early times, and reaches self-regulation once it is massive enough. We find that at early cosmic times z > 3.5, efficient feedback from SNe forbids the formation of a settled disc as well as the accumulation of dense cold gas in the vicinity of the BH and starves the central compact object. As the galaxy and its halo accumulate mass, they become able to confine the nuclear inflows provided by major mergers and the BH grows at a sustained near-to-Eddington accretion rate. We argue that this mechanism should be ubiquitous amongst low-mass galaxies, corresponding to galaxies with a stellar mass below . 10 9 M⊙ in our simulations.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics

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The dark nemesis of galaxy formation : why hot haloes trigger black hole growth and bring star formation to an end (2016, background): “This has previously been considered in the context of high resolution simulations of individual high redshift galaxies (eg., Dubois et al. 2015; Habouzit et al. 2016).”
Supermassive black holes and their feedback effects in the IllustrisTNG simulation (2017, background): “…role of major mergers (Springel et al. 2005; Di Matteo et al. 2005; Hopkins et al. 2006; Sparre & Springel 2016, 2017; Pontzen et al. 2017) or the interplay with other effects, like stellar feedback in galaxies of specific masses (Dubois et al. 2015; Habouzit et al. 2016, 2017; Bower et al. 2017).”
Blossoms from black hole seeds: properties and early growth regulated by supernova feedback (2016, methodology): “In the weaker kinetic and thermal feedbacks, the energy released by SN explosions is distributed in the nearby surrounding cells, but the cooling times in dense gas cells is very short, therefore, the cold gas present in dense central regions is not destroyed and is still available to form stars, an”
Simulating galaxy formation with black hole driven thermal and kinetic feedback (2016, methodology): “We briefly summarize the changes due to the modifications in the stellar wind model (i.e. the first two items) in Appendix A, as the interplay between stellar and AGN feedback affects the overall galaxy population (Puchwein & Springel 2013) as well as black hole growth rates (Dubois et al. 2015).”
The cosmic evolution of massive black holes in the Horizon-AGN simulation (2016, methodology): “Additionally, stronger SN feedback would suppress BH growth in low-mass galaxies and improve the overall match (Dubois et al. 2015).”
Black holes on FIRE: stellar feedback limits early feeding of galactic nuclei (2017, background): “…on Bondi-like accretion and parametrized star-formation-driven kinetic winds (Costa et al. 2014) or delayed cooling thermal supernova feedback (Dubois et al. 2015; Bonoli et al. 2016; Bower et al. 2017; Habouzit, Volonteri & Dubois 2017; Prieto et al. 2017) also find suppressed ṀBH in…”
The Horizon-AGN Simulation: Morphological Diversity of Galaxies ,Promoted by AGN Feedback (2016, background): “On the one hand, it is expected that the effect of AGN feedback in this mass range is irrelevant thanks to supernovaquenching of BH activity (Dubois et al. 2015; Habouzit, Volonteri & Dubois 2016).”
simba: Cosmological simulations with black hole growth and feedback (2019, result): “A qualitatively similar effect was also found in EAGLE (Bower et al. 2017; McAlpine et al. 2018) and Ramses-based simulations (Dubois et al. 2015; Habouzit et al. 2017), though their use of Bondi accretion may inhibit the growth of low mass black holes even in the absence of resolved stellar…”
RELATIONS BETWEEN CENTRAL BLACK HOLE MASS AND TOTAL GALAXY STELLAR MASS IN THE LOCAL UNIVERSE (2015, background): “Dubois et al. (2015) suggest that the growth of BHs in low-mass galaxies (galaxy mass < 1010 M⊙ and bulge mass < 10 9 M⊙) is stunted because of supernova feedback, which hinders accumulation 14 Reines et al. of gas in the nucleus until the potential well of the bulge and galaxy become deep enough.”