Toward the event horizon - The supermassive black hole in the Galactic Center

Classical and Quantum Gravity

Volumn 30, Issue 24, 2013, Pages

  Falcke, H ^a,b,c   Markoff, S B ^d  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b ASTRON   (Netherlands)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR RADIOASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/30/24/244003     Document Type: Article

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