Disruption of a proto-planetary disc by the black hole at the milky way centre

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Murray Clay, Ruth A ^a   Loeb, Abraham ^a  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BLACK HOLE; CLOUD; PROTO-PLANETARY DISC;

EID: 84866979896     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2044     Document Type: Article

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