A 17-billion-solar-mass black hole in a group galaxy with a diffuse core

Jens Thomas (), Chung-Pei Ma (), Nicholas J. McConnell, Jenny E. Greene, John P. Blakeslee and Ryan Janish
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Jens Thomas: Max Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
Chung-Pei Ma: University of California
Nicholas J. McConnell: Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, NRC Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics
Jenny E. Greene: Princeton University
John P. Blakeslee: Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, NRC Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics
Ryan Janish: University of California

Nature, 2016, vol. 532, issue 7599, 340-342

Abstract: The galaxy NGC 1600 is found to contain an enormous black hole of 17 billion solar masses—the first black hole of such a size to be found in an environment outside the richest clusters of galaxies.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1038/nature17197

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