Supermassive black holes are extensively discussed in this talk: 1) cosmic evolution of SMBHs; 2) masses and spins; 3) SMBH binaries and nano-Hz gravitational waves; 4) Satellite black holes around SMBH; 5) new opportunity of SMBH research in the JWST and VLTI era.BIOJianming Wang is astrophysics professor in IHEP. He got PhD in USTC in 1995 and originally from National University of Defense Te...
In the standard cosmological model, the matter content of the Universe is dominated by cold dark matter (CDM), collisionless particles that interact with ordinary matter (baryons) only through gravity. Gravitationally bound dark-matter halos form hierarchically, with the most massive systems growing through mergers of smaller ones. As structure assembles in this fashion, large dark-matter halos...
I will present a measurement of the supermassive black hole (SMBH) mass in NGC 383, a nearby lenticular galaxy hosting a low-power radio jet, based on ALMA observations of the CO(2-1) emission line with an angular resolution of 0.′′050 × 0.′′024 (≈ 16 pc × 8 pc). These observations spatially resolve the nuclear molecular gas disc down to ≈ 41300 Schwarzschild radii and the SMBH sphere of...
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are typically milli-second-duration luminous radio transients whose source remain debatable. Caltech/ OVRO's Deep Synoptic Array-110 (DSA-110) is the only radio interferometer designed specifically for FRB searching and localization. By mid-2023, DSA-110 has doubled the number of localized FRBs. First, I will highlight the high-resolution burst morphology of a sample...
The past and ongoing gravitational wave detections have fostered a wide interest in understanding the formation of binary black holes (BBHs). Several formation scenarios have been proposed, including the evolution of isolated massive binaries. While most of the observed merging black holes are at cosmological distances, and thus likely at low metallicity, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) provid...