Evidence for a massive black hole in the active galaxy NGC 4261 from bubble space telescope images and spectra

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 470, Issue 1 PART I, 1996, Pages 444-459

  Ferrarese, Laura ^a   Ford, Holland C ^a   Jaffe, Walter ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Black hole physics; Galaxies: Individual (NGC 4261) galaxies: Kinematics and dynamics; Galaxies: Nuclei

Indexed keywords

EID: 21444449848     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/177876     Document Type: Article

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