An actively accreting massive black hole in the dwarf starburst galaxy Henize2-10

Nature

Volumn 470, Issue 7332, 2011, Pages 66-68

  Reines, Amy E ^a   Sivakoff, Gregory R ^a   Johnson, Kelsey E ^a,b   Brogan, Crystal L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSMOLOGY; EXTRATERRESTRIAL MATTER; SOLAR ACTIVITY;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COSMOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X RAY;

EID: 79551672161     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09724     Document Type: Article

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