I will describe a model for galaxy formation and the growth of supermassive black holes (SMBHs), based on the fact that cold dark matter halos form their gravitational potential wells through a fast phase with rapid change in the potential, and that the high universal baryon fraction makes cooled gas in halos self-gravitating and turbulent before it can form rotation-supported disks. Gas fragmentation produces sub-clouds so dense that cloud-cloud collision and drag on clouds are not significant, producing a dynamically hot system of sub-clouds that form stars and move ballistically to feed the central SMBH.
Active galactic nuclei and supernova feedback is effective only in the fast phase, and the cumulative effects are to regulate star formation and SMBH growth, as well as to reduce the amount of cold gas in halos to allow the formation of globally stable disks. Applied to realistic halo assembly histories, the model can reproduce a number of observations, including correlations among SMBH mass, stellar mass of galaxies and halo mass, the size-mass relation of dynamically hot galaxies, the number densities of galaxies and SMBH, and their evolution over the cosmic time.
