Direct formation of supermassive black holes via multi-scale gas inflows in galaxy mergers

Nature

Volumn 466, Issue 7310, 2010, Pages 1082-1083

  Mayer, L ^a   Kazantzidis, S ^b   Escala, A ^c,d   Callegari, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD; COSMOLOGY; EXTRATERRESTRIAL MATTER; GAS FLOW; GRAVITY FIELD; INFLOW; NATURAL GAS; NUMERICAL MODEL;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; EVOLUTION; GAS; GRAVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 77956147762     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09294     Document Type: Article

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