An intermediate-mass black hole of over 500 solar masses in the galaxy ESO243-49

Nature

Volumn 460, Issue 7251, 2009, Pages 73-75

  Farrell, Sean A ^a,b,c   Webb, Natalie A ^a,b   Barret, Didier ^a,b   Godet, Olivier ^c   Rodrigues, Joana M ^a,b  

^a IRAP   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; MASS; SOLAR ACTIVITY; SOLAR SYSTEM; X-RAY;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COSMIC RADIATION; DISPERSION; ENERGY RESOURCE; GEOMETRY; GRAVITY; IMAGING; LUMINANCE; MASS; OPTICAL DENSITY; PARAMETER; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SOLAR ENERGY; SPECTRUM; X RAY; X RAY SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 67650071029     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08083     Document Type: Article

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