Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2003-03-20
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
12 pages, LaTeX, no figures. To appear in: Carnegie Observatories Astrophysics Series, Vol. 1: Coevolution of Black Holes and
Scientific paper
In the past decade, much effort was devoted to measure the masses of supermassive black holes in galactic nuclei, to establish the relation between black hole mass and the global/nuclear properties of the host galaxy, and to understand the role of these objects in the formation and subsequent dynamical evolution of galaxies. This whole area of research is an appropriate and timely topic for the first in this series of symposia. Nearly half the contributions were devoted to the various methods that are being used to estimate masses of central black holes, from nearby globular clusters all the way to quasars at redshifts z>6. This work forms the foundation of our understanding of black hole demography, and provides constraints on scenarios for black hole formation and growth, and on their connection to the formation and properties of the host galaxy. I will address these topics in this same order.
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