Black Holes and Galaxy Metamorphosis
| dc.creator | Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly | |
| dc.date | 2001-04-26 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T01:58:18Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T01:58:18Z | |
| dc.description | Supermassive black holes can be seen as an agent of galaxy transformation. In particular, a supermassive black hole can cause a triaxial galaxy to evolve toward axisymmetry by inducing chaos in centrophilic orbit families. This is one way in which a single supermassive black hole can induce large-scale changes in the structure of its host galaxy -- changes on scales far larger than the Schwarzschild radius ($O(10^{-5}) \rm{pc}$) and the radius of influence of the black hole ($O(1)-O(100) \rm{pc}$). We will discuss the transformative power of supermassive black holes in light of recent high resolution N-body realizations of cuspy triaxial galaxies. | |
| dc.description | 6 pages, 4 figures (2 in color); to appear in the proceedings of the 20th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, ed. H. Martel and J. C. Wheeler | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0104423 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0104423 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/2718 | |
| dc.subject | Astrophysics | |
| dc.title | Black Holes and Galaxy Metamorphosis | |
| dc.type | text |