posted on 2024-07-11, 16:43authored byNandini Sahu
My Ph.D. thesis presents a rigorous investigation connecting supermassive black holes with their host galaxy properties such as mass, size, density, and stellar kinematics. This work discovered new (black hole)-galaxy relations and revealed how they are dependent on the host galaxy's structure, i.e., a spiral or elliptical galaxy formed by different physical processes. These results will have multiple applications in other fields of astronomy, such as gravitational-wave physics, and offer a big step towards understanding the co-evolution of galaxies and black holes and our Universe in general.
History
Thesis type
Thesis (PhD by publication)
Thesis note
Presented in fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, December 2021, School of Science, Computing and Engineering Technologies, Swinburne University of Technology.