Massimo Dotti - March 18, 2016

Linking massive black hole spin evolution to galactic dynamics

The evolution of the spin of massive black holes (MBHs) is driven by
accretion of gas and/or by black hole binary coalescences. I will discuss
the physical processes involved in the MBH spin evolution, and present the
results of a semi-analytical model that manages to reproduce the
distribution of spins obtained from X-ray spectroscopy.