The inner edge of the accretion disk around a supermassive black hole

Nature

Volumn 391, Issue 6662, 1998, Pages 54-56

  Bromley, B C ^a   Miller, W A ^b   Pariev, V I ^b,c  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c LEBEDEV PHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COSMOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; X RAY;

EID: 0031912182     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/34130     Document Type: Article

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