The formation of galaxy stellar cores by the hierarchical merging of supermassive black holes

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 593, Issue 2 I, 2003, Pages 661-666

  Volonteri, Marta ^a   Madau, Piero ^a   Haardt, Francesco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Black hole physics; Cosmology: theory; Galaxies: evolution; Quasars: general

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042287899     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/376722     Document Type: Article

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