Can quasars, triggered by mergers, account for NANOGrav’s stochastic gravitational wave background?
Á. Kis-Tóth, Z. Haiman, Z. Frei, Classical and Quantum Gravity 42 (2025).

The convergence of heavy and light seeds to overmassive black holes at cosmic dawn
H. Hu, K. Inayoshi, Z. Haiman, L.C. Ho, K. Ohsuga, Astrophysical Journal Letters 983 (2025).

Suppressed accretion onto massive black hole binaries surrounded by thin disks
C. Tiede, J. Zrake, A. Macfadyen, Z. Haiman, Astrophysical Journal 984 (2025).

Can supermassive stars form in protogalaxies due to internal Lyman-Werner feedback?
J. Sullivan, Z. Haiman, M. Kulkarni, E. Visbal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 542 (2025) 822–838.

A post-starburst pathway for the formation of massive galaxies and black holes at z > 6
M. Onoue, X. Ding, J.D. Silverman, Y. Matsuoka, T. Izumi, M.A. Strauss, C. Ward, C.L. Phillips, K. Ito, I.T. Andika, K. Aoki, J. Arita, S. Baba, R. Bieri, S.E.I. Bosman, A.C. Eilers, S. Fujimoto, M. Habouzit, Z. Haiman, M. Imanishi, K. Inayoshi, K. Iwasawa, K. Jahnke, N. Kashikawa, T. Kawaguchi, K. Kohno, C.H. Lee, J. Li, A. Lupi, J. Lyu, T. Nagao, R. Overzier, J.T. Schindler, M. Schramm, M.T. Scoggins, K. Shimasaku, Y. Toba, B. Trakhtenbrot, M. Trebitsch, T. Treu, H. Umehata, B. Venemans, M. Vestergaard, M. Volonteri, F. Walter, F. Wang, J. Yang, H. Zhang, Nature Astronomy (2025).

Triples as links between binary Black Hole mergers, their electromagnetic counterparts, and galactic Black Holes
S. Naoz, Z. Haiman, E. Quataert, L. Holzknecht, Astrophysical Journal Letters 992 (2025).

Testing compact massive black hole binary candidates through multi-epoch spectroscopy
L. Bertassi, E. Sottocorno, F. Rigamonti, D. D’Orazio, M. Eracleous, Z. Haiman, M. Dotti, Astronomy &; Astrophysics 702 (2025).

What determines the maximum mass of AGN-assisted black hole mergers?
L.Q. Xue, H. Tagawa, Z. Haiman, I. Bartos, Physical Review D 112 (2025).

NuSTAR observations of candidate subparsec binary supermassive black holes
M.L. Saade, M. Brightman, D. Stern, T. Connor, S.G. Djorgovski, D.J. D’Orazio, K.E.S. Ford, M.J. Graham, Z. Haiman, H.D. Jun, E. Kammoun, R.P. Kraft, B. McKernan, A. Vikhlinin, D.J. Walton, The Astrophysical Journal 966 (2024).

Shock cooling and breakout emission for optical flares associated with gravitational-wave events
H. Tagawa, S.S. Kimura, Z. Haiman, R. Perna, I. Bartos, The Astrophysical Journal 966 (2024).

Diagnosing the massive-seed pathway to high-redshift black holes: statistics of the evolving black hole to host galaxy mass ratio
M.T. Scoggins, Z. Haiman, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 531 (2024) 4584–4597.

Self-lensing flares from black hole binaries: General-relativistic ray tracing of circumbinary accretion simulations
L.M. Krauth, J. Davelaar, Z. Haiman, J.R. Westernacher-Schneider, J. Zrake, A. MacFadyen, Physical Review D 109 (2024).

Eccentric minidisks in accreting binaries
J.R. Westernacher-Schneider, J. Zrake, A. MacFadyen, Z. Haiman, The Astrophysical Journal 962 (2024).

cTidal Peeling Eventsd: Low-eccentricity tidal disruption of a star by a stellar-mass black hole
C. Xin, Z. Haiman, R. Perna, Y. Wang, T. Ryu, The Astrophysical Journal 961 (2024).

Observable signatures of stellar-mass black holes in active galactic nuclei
H. Tagawa, S.S. Kimura, Z. Haiman, R. Perna, I. Bartos, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 946 (2023).

Gravitational wave source populations: Disentangling an AGN component
V. Gayathri, D. Wysocki, Y. Yang, V. Delfavero, R. O’Shaughnessy, Z. Haiman, H. Tagawa, I. Bartos, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 945 (2023).

The enhanced population of extreme mass-ratio inspirals in the LISA band from supermassive black hole binaries
S. Naoz, Z. Haiman, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 955 (2023).

Disappearing thermal X-ray emission as a tell-tale signature of merging massive black hole binaries
L.M. Krauth, J. Davelaar, J.R. Westernacher-Schneider, Z. Haiman, J. Zrake, A. MacFadyen, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 526 (2023) 5441–5454.

Self-regulation of black hole accretion via jets in early protogalaxies
K.-Y. Su, G.L. Bryan, Z. Haiman, R.S. Somerville, C.C. Hayward, C.-A. Faucher-Giguère, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 520 (2023) 4258–4275.

Flares from stars crossing active galactic nucleus discs on low-inclination orbits
H. Tagawa, Z. Haiman, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 526 (2023) 69–79.