Accretion of clumpy cold gas onto massive black hole binaries: a possible fast route to binary coalescence

@article{Goicovic2018AccretionOC,
title={Accretion of clumpy cold gas onto massive black hole binaries: a possible fast route to binary coalescence},
author={Felipe G Goicovic and Cristi'an Maureira-Fredes and Alberto Sesana and Pau Amaro-Seoane and Jorge Cuadra},
journal={Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society},
year={2018}
}
• F. Goicovic, +2 authors J. Cuadra
• Published 15 January 2018
• Physics
• Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
In currently favoured hierarchical cosmologies, the formation of massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) following galaxy mergers is unavoidable. Still, due the complex physics governing the (hydro)dynamics of the post-merger dense environment of stars and gas in galactic nuclei, the final fate of those MBHBs is still unclear. In gas-rich environments, it is plausible that turbulence and gravitational instabilities feed gas to the nucleus in the form of a series of cold incoherent clumps, thus…
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