A rapidly spinning supermassive black hole at the centre of NGC 1365

Nature

Volumn 494, Issue 7438, 2013, Pages 449-451

  Risaliti, G ^a,b   Harrison, F A ^c   Madsen, K K ^c   Walton, D J ^c   Boggs, S E ^d   Christensen, F E ^e   Craig, W W ^e,f   Grefenstette, B W ^c   Hailey, C J ^g   Nardini, E ^h   Stern, Daniel ⁱ   Zhang, W W ^j  

^a INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI ARCETRI   (Italy)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^f LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^h KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^j NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; DATA SET; FLUORESCENCE; IONIZATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; REFLECTANCE; X-RAY;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CLOUD; ENERGY; LUMINANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELESCOPE; TIME; VELOCITY; X RAY;

EID: 84874351122     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11938     Document Type: Article

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