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A Fundamental Relation between Supermassive Black Holes and Their Host Galaxies
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The masses of supermassive black holes correlate almost perfectly with the velocity dispersions of their host bulges, M bh ∝ σ α , where α = 4.8 ± 0.5. The relation is much tighter than the relation between M bh and bulge luminosity, with a scatter no larger than expected on the basis of measurement error alone. Black hole masses recently estimated by Magorrian et al. lie systematically above the M bh -σ relation defined by more accurate mass estimates, some by as much as 2 orders of magnitude. The tightness of the M bh -σ relation implies a strong link between black hole formation and the properties of the stellar bulge.
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- Ferrarese, L., & Merritt, D.
- Venue
- The Astrophysical Journal
- Publisher
- American Astronomical Society
- Published
- 2000-08-10
- Volume
- 539
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- L9-L12
- ISSN
- 0004-637X (ISSN-L)
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- W2135894620
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- 4,417
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- 94.35
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- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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