Rapid formation of supermassive black hole binaries in galaxy mergers with gas

Science

Volumn 316, Issue 5833, 2007, Pages 1874-1877

  Mayer, L ^a,b   Kazantzidis, S ^c   Madau, P ^d,e   Colpi, M ^f   Quinn, T ^g   Wadsley, J ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTROPHYSIK   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^h MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; COLLISION; HYDRODYNAMICS; MODELING;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BLACK HOLE; COSMOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; GALAXY; GAS; GRAVITY; HYDRODYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION PHYSICS; SIMULATION;

EID: 34347406605     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1141858     Document Type: Article

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