A 400-solar-mass black hole in the galaxy M82

Dheeraj R. Pasham (), Tod E. Strohmayer and Richard F. Mushotzky
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Dheeraj R. Pasham: University of Maryland, College Park
Tod E. Strohmayer: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Richard F. Mushotzky: University of Maryland, College Park

Nature, 2014, vol. 513, issue 7516, 74-76

Abstract: The discovery of two stable peaks at frequencies with a ratio of 3:2 in the power spectrum of X-ray emission from the brightest X-ray source in galaxy M82 suggests that, if the relationship between frequency and mass that holds for stellar-mass black holes can be extended to intermediate masses, the black hole believed to be the source of the emission has a mass approximately 400 times that of the Sun.

Date: 2014
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