An over-massive black hole in the compact lenticular galaxy NGC 1277

Remco C. E. van den Bosch (), Karl Gebhardt, Kayhan Gültekin, Glenn van de Ven, Arjen van der Wel and Jonelle L. Walsh
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Remco C. E. van den Bosch: Max-Planck Institut für Astronomie, Königstuhl 17, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany
Karl Gebhardt: The University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station C1400
Kayhan Gültekin: University of Michigan
Glenn van de Ven: Max-Planck Institut für Astronomie, Königstuhl 17, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany
Arjen van der Wel: Max-Planck Institut für Astronomie, Königstuhl 17, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany
Jonelle L. Walsh: The University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station C1400

Nature, 2012, vol. 491, issue 7426, 729-731

Abstract: Observations of the stellar dynamics of the compact lenticular galaxy NGC 1277 show that its central black hole accounts for more than half of the mass of the host galaxy’s bulge, indicating that lenticular galaxies do not follow the usual black-hole mass scaling relations.

Date: 2012
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