Evidence for rapidly spinning black holes in quasars

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 642, Issue 2 II, 2006, Pages

  Wang, Jian Min ^a   Chen, Yan Mei ^a,b   Ho, Luis C ^c   McLure, Ross J ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c CARNEGIE OBSERVATORIES   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Black hole physics; Quasars: general

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746044533     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/504842     Document Type: Article

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