The discovery that many nearby galaxies contain super massive black holes and that the black hole mass is proportional to the mass of the host galaxy has stimulated an intense research activity to understand the growth of super massive black holes in a cosmological perspective. The giant cavities produced by powerful radio sources in the hot intergalactic medium of galaxy clusters demonstrate that black hole accretion can affect the surrounding environment at large. Models of galaxy formation can reproduce the galaxy mass function, the colour bimodality of the galaxy population and the red colour of massive early type galaxies, but only when they include feedback from black hole accretion to prevent the hot gas from cooling. However, the mechanisms through which black holes affect their environment (hot bubbles, jets, radiation processes) are still a matter of debate. Another open question is if most of the energy injection happened at the epoch when super massive black holes and the early type galaxy population were assembled, or if it corresponds to a different mode from the one that fuelled optical quasars.
Information on participating / attending:
see webpage: http://www.aip.de/thinkshop4
Date:
09/10/2006 - 09/13/2006
Event venue:
Dorint Novotel Berlin Potsdam Sanssouci, Jaegerallee 20
14469 Potsdam
Brandenburg
Germany
Target group:
Scientists and scholars
Email address:
Relevance:
international
Subject areas:
Mathematics, Physics / astronomy
Types of events:
Entry:
03/27/2006
Sender/author:
Shehan Bonatz
Department:
Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
Event is free:
no
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event16779
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