Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Feb 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010head...11.2502k&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, HEAD meeting #11, #25.02; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.696
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Scientific paper
The presence of supermassive binary black holes and recoiling black holes has a wealth of astrophysical implications which are currently being explored. Studying their properties and determining their frequency is of great interest for many branches of astrophysics, including models of structure formation in the early universe, black hole growth, evolution of active galaxies and feedback processes, and black hole - galaxy scaling relations. Merging black holes are cosmic laboratories which enable us to study the effects of strong gravity under extreme conditions. The predicted electromagnetic signatures of coalescing binary black holes point us to the sites of these events, they enable us to study their environment and merger state in detail, and they provide tight new constraints on merger histories. I will give an overview of the actual observations and high-energy signatures of massive black hole binaries, including future schemes to search for electromagnetic counterparts to merging and recoiling black holes.
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