Black Hole Growth and Feedback in U/LIRGs

4 June 2025 Understanding the growth of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) is an important aspect of understanding how the galaxies they live in grow and change over the lifetime of the Universe. Recent work on the general population of actively growing SMBHs (i.e., the active galactic nuclei or AGN) has found at the statistical relationship between the amount of gas obscuring our view towards the…