Field galaxies and their AGNs: Nature versus nurture

Abstract

This review attempts to present most recent findings related to the very controversial question of which processes guide the flow of gas to the galactic centers where the accretion and growth of supermassive black holes occurs. Also, we put this question in the context of influence of the environment (galaxy clusters versus field) onto these processes. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 176021: Visible and Invisible Matter in Nearby Galaxies: Theory and Observations. The author acknowledges the financial support provided by the European Commission through project BELISSIMA (BELgrade Initiative for Space Science, Instrumentation and Modelling in Astrophysics, call FP7-REGPOT-2010-5, contract no. 256772]

Keywords

• galaxies: abundances
• galaxies: active
• galaxies: formation
• galaxies: evolution
• galaxies: interactions
• galaxies: halos