Possible evidence for the ejection of a supermassive black hole from an ongoing merger of galaxies

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters

Volumn 366, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Haehnelt, Martin G ^a   Davies, Melvyn B ^b   Rees, Martin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Binaries: general; Black hole physics; Celestial mechanics; Galaxies: nuclei; Stellar dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646472371     PISSN: 17453933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-3933.2005.00124.x     Document Type: Letter

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