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Bridging Scales: How Much Do Supermassive Black Holes Grow in the Suppressed Bondi Regime?

  • Authors: Kung-Yi Su, Angelo Ricarte, Priyamvada Natarajan, Antonio J. Porras-Valverde, Hyerin Cho, 린조 혜, Ramesh Narayan, Claude-André Faucher-Giguère, Philip F. Hopkins, Cora Prather

Kung-Yi Su et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 998 .

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The stellar mass (top), star formation rate (middle), and black hole accretion rate (bottom) of the most massive progenitor in the light-seeding (left), fiducial-seeding (center), and early-seeding (right) models. The shaded region shows the 16th–84th percentile range of the accretion rate across all black holes in the run at each time. Black holes with MBH ≲ 107M⊙ do not impact the star formation rate regardless of feedback efficiency. For MBH ≳ 3 × 107M⊙, feedback efficiencies η ≳ 0.3 (a* ≳ 0.9) lead to efficient quenching of star formation, while efficiencies η ≲ 0.02 remain ineffective. A feedback efficiency ≳0.3 always suppresses black hole accretion, regardless of black hole mass.

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