Two ten-billion-solar-mass black holes at the centres of giant elliptical galaxies

Nature

Volumn 480, Issue 7376, 2011, Pages 215-218

  Mcconnell, Nicholas J ^a   Ma, Chung Pei ^a   Gebhardt, Karl ^b   Wright, Shelley A ^a   Murphy, Jeremy D ^b   Lauer, Tod R ^c   Graham, James R ^a,d   Richstone, Douglas O ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORRELATION; DECADAL VARIATION; ELLIPSE; LUMINESCENCE;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BLACK HOLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISPERSION; EVOLUTION; LUMINANCE; NGC 4889; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLAR MASS; VELOCITY;

EID: 83055180186     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10636     Document Type: Article

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