A displaced supermassive black hole in M87

Astrophysical Journal Letters

Volumn 717, Issue 1, 2010, Pages L6-L10

  Batcheldor, D ^a   Robinson, A ^b   Axon, D J ^b,c   Perlman, E S ^a   Merritt, D ^b  

^a FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Black hole physics; Galaxies: Individual (M87); Galaxies: nuclei Online only material: Machine readable table

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952150638     PISSN: 20418205     EISSN: 20418213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/717/1/L6     Document Type: Article

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