Rapid X-ray flaring from the direction of the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Centre

Nature

Volumn 413, Issue 6851, 2001, Pages 45-48

  Baganoff, F K ^a   Bautz, M W ^a   Brandt, W N ^b   Chartas, G ^b   Feigelson, E D ^b   Garmire, G P ^b   Maeda, Y ^b,c   Morris, M ^d   Ricker, G R ^a   Townsley, L K ^b   Walter, F ^e  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; GALAXIES; POTENTIAL ENERGY; X RAYS;

BLACK HOLE;

ASTRONOMY;

ASTROPHYSICS;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ENERGY; GAS; GRAVITY; MASS; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTRUM; X RAY;

SAGITTARIUS;

EID: 0035817856     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35092510     Document Type: Article

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