A candidate sub-parsec supermassive binary black hole system

Nature

Volumn 458, Issue 7234, 2009, Pages 53-55

  Boroson, Todd A ^a   Lauer, Tod R ^a  

^a NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; VELOCITY;

ARTICLE; COSMIC RADIATION; COSMOS; FIELD EMISSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 61949452892     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07779     Document Type: Article

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