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No Supermassive Black Hole in M33?
Science, 2001 We observed the nucleus of M33, the third-brightest galaxy in the Local Group, with the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph at a resolution at least a factor of 10 higher than previously obtained. Rather than the steep rise expected within the radius of gravitational influence of a supermassive black hole, the random stellar velocities showed a ...
Merritt, David +2 more
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Supermassive black holes then and now [PDF]
AIP Conference Proceedings, 1998 7 pages, to appear in The Proceedings of the Second International LISA Symposium on Graviational Waves, ed.
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A NEARLY NAKED SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLE [PDF]
The Astrophysical Journal, 2017 ABSTRACT During a systematic search for supermassive black holes (SMBHs) not in galactic nuclei, we identified the compact, symmetric radio source B3 1715+425 with an emission-line galaxy offset ≈ 8.5
J. J. Condon +3 more
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Supermassive black holes in the early universe [PDF]
Contemporary Physics, 2019 22 pages, 9 figures, Invited Review, Contemporary Physics, in ...
Aaron Smith, Volker Bromm
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Supermassive Black Holes [PDF]
Journal of High Energy Physics, Gravitation and Cosmology, 2019 The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is aiming to image the event horizon of the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy. Andrea Ghez has mapped out the orbits of stars around this supermassive black hole and deduced it has a mass of four million Suns. An even bigger supermassive black hole of six billion solar masses lies at the centre of the
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Formation of Supermassive Black Hole Seeds [PDF]
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 2016 AbstractThe detection of quasars at z > 6 unveils the presence of supermassive black holes of a few billion solar masses. The rapid formation process of these extreme objects remains a fascinating and open issue. Such discovery implies that seed black holes must have formed early on, and grown via either rapid accretion or BH/galaxy mergers. In this
Latif, M., FERRARA, ANDREA
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Mass Functions of Supermassive Black Holes across Cosmic Time [PDF]
, 2012 The black hole mass function of supermassive black holes describes the evolution of the distribution of black hole mass. It is one of the primary empirical tools available for mapping the growth of supermassive black holes and for constraining ...
Kelly, B. +3 more
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THE SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLE IN M84 REVISITED [PDF]
The Astrophysical Journal, 2010 The mass of the central black hole in the giant elliptical galaxy M84 has previously been measured by two groups using the same observations of emission-line gas with the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) on the Hubble Space Telescope, giving strongly discrepant results: Bower et al. (1998) found M_BH = (1.5^{+1.1}_{-0.6}) x 10^9 M_sun, while
Walsh, Jonelle L. +2 more
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Evolution of Supermassive Black Holes [PDF]
, 2007 Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are nowadays believed to reside in most local galaxies, and the available data show an empirical correlation between bulge luminosity - or stellar velocity dispersion - and black hole mass, suggesting a single mechanism for assembling black holes and forming spheroids in galaxy halos. The evidence is therefore in favour
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Hidden No More: Spotlight on Tidal Disruption Events in Active Galactic Nuclei
Astronomische Nachrichten, Volume 347, Issue 5, June 2026.ABSTRACT Tidal disruption events (TDEs) are typically discovered in previously quiescent galaxies. However, earlier studies have revealed a handful of TDEs occurring in pre‐existing active galactic nuclei (AGN). We discuss AT2019aalc, a promising TDE candidate in an AGN, and compare it to similar sources.
Patrik Milán Veres
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