Direct Cosmological Simulations of the Growth of Black Holes and Galaxies
Direct Cosmological Simulations of the Growth of Black Holes and Galaxies
We investigate the coupled formation and evolution of galaxies and their embedded supermassive black holes using state-of-the-art hydrodynamic simulations of cosmological structure formation. For the first time, we self-consistently follow the dark matter dynamics, radiative gas cooling, star formation, as well as black hole growth and associated feedback processes, starting …