The effect of triaxial galaxy shapes on the dynamics of triple supermassive black holes in a cosmological context

arXiv:2607.23919 · astro-ph.GA · Submitted 2026-07-27 · Read on arXiv

Navonil Saha, Margarita Sobolenko, Peter Berczik, Andreas Just, Fazeel Mahmood Khan

astro-ph.GA

Submitted: 2026-07-27

Comments: 13 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in A&A

Code: https://github.com/treecode/Bonsaihttps:

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• N-body simulations — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Hierarchical Framework — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Velocity Dispersion — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AGN — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Center for Astrophysics and Space Science — 1× in this paper
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Secular Approximation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Self-consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• LISA Definition Study Report
• Evolution of Massive Blackhole Triples II -- The effect of the BH triples dynamics on the structure of the galactic nuclear

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