A Jetted Wandering Massive Black Hole Candidate in a Dwarf Galaxy
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| author | Liu, Yuanqi An, Tao Mezcua, Mar Zhang, Yingkang Wang, Ailing Yang, Jun Cheng, Xiaopeng |
| author_facet | Liu, Yuanqi An, Tao Mezcua, Mar Zhang, Yingkang Wang, Ailing Yang, Jun Cheng, Xiaopeng |
| contents | Wandering massive black holes (MBHs) are thought to form through gravitational recoil or galaxy mergers, but observational confirmation of their displacement in dwarf galaxies, critical laboratories for early-universe SMBH seeding, remains scarce. Using multi-epoch very long baseline interferometry (VLBI), we identify a displaced MBH in the dwarf galaxy MaNGA 12772-12704, located 0.94 kilo-parsec from its optical center. The source exhibits unambiguous signatures of an accreting MBH: a brightness temperature exceeding $10^9$K, a parsec-scale jet, and flux density variability over a 30-year baseline. This system provides the first robust evidence that dynamical black hole interactions predicted in hierarchical galaxy evolution occur even in low-mass hosts. The discovery challenges models requiring centralized gas reservoirs for MBH growth and directly informs high-redshift seeding scenarios. |
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| spellingShingle | A Jetted Wandering Massive Black Hole Candidate in a Dwarf Galaxy Liu, Yuanqi An, Tao Mezcua, Mar Zhang, Yingkang Wang, Ailing Yang, Jun Cheng, Xiaopeng Astrophysics of Galaxies Wandering massive black holes (MBHs) are thought to form through gravitational recoil or galaxy mergers, but observational confirmation of their displacement in dwarf galaxies, critical laboratories for early-universe SMBH seeding, remains scarce. Using multi-epoch very long baseline interferometry (VLBI), we identify a displaced MBH in the dwarf galaxy MaNGA 12772-12704, located 0.94 kilo-parsec from its optical center. The source exhibits unambiguous signatures of an accreting MBH: a brightness temperature exceeding $10^9$K, a parsec-scale jet, and flux density variability over a 30-year baseline. This system provides the first robust evidence that dynamical black hole interactions predicted in hierarchical galaxy evolution occur even in low-mass hosts. The discovery challenges models requiring centralized gas reservoirs for MBH growth and directly informs high-redshift seeding scenarios. |
| title | A Jetted Wandering Massive Black Hole Candidate in a Dwarf Galaxy |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17293 |