Most, if not all, galaxies, including our own Milky Way, are host to a supermassive black hole (SMBH) at their center. Since the discovery of a tight empirical correlation between SMBH mass and host galaxy bulge mass, mounting observational evidence and advances in cosmological simulations suggest a link between galaxy evolution and central black hole growth. In this talk, I will review some of the main results from this exciting field of study, including a discussion of our new technique for identifying distant actively accreting SMBHs and recent observational evidence for an intriguing time-delay between star formation and SMBH feeding.
Wednesday, October 12th at Noon
Room F235, Technological Institute
