Buried Black Hole Growth in IR-selected Mergers: New Results from Chandra
Buried Black Hole Growth in IR-selected Mergers: New Results from Chandra
Abstract Observations and theoretical simulations suggest that a significant fraction of merger-triggered accretion onto supermassive black holes is highly obscured, particularly in late-stage galaxy mergers, when the black hole is expected to grow most rapidly. Starting with the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer all-sky survey, we identified a population of galaxies …