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

Nicholas J. McConnell (), Chung-Pei Ma (), Karl Gebhardt, Shelley A. Wright, Jeremy D. Murphy, Tod R. Lauer, James R. Graham and Douglas O. Richstone
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Nicholas J. McConnell: University of California
Chung-Pei Ma: University of California
Karl Gebhardt: University of Texas
Shelley A. Wright: University of California
Jeremy D. Murphy: University of Texas
Tod R. Lauer: National Optical Astronomy Observatory
James R. Graham: University of California
Douglas O. Richstone: University of Michigan

Nature, 2011, vol. 480, issue 7376, 215-218

Abstract: Two nearby black holes are the most massive yet found, with masses—of around ten billion solar masses—considerably greater than predicted by conventional methods relating black-hole mass with the stellar velocity dispersion and bulge luminosity of the host galaxy.

Date: 2011
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