The case against a massive black hole at the Galactic Centre

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Sep 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992natur.359..131s&link_type=abstract

Nature (ISSN 0028-0836), vol. 359, no. 6391, Sept. 10, 1992, p. 131, 132.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Black Holes (Astronomy), Galactic Nuclei, Infrared Sources (Astronomy), Milky Way Galaxy, Blue Stars, Galactic Structure, Near Infrared Radiation

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A hypothesis is presented that the presence of young stars in the central parsec of the Galaxy is incompatible with the presence of a giant black hole or any other centrally condensed mass because tidal forces would have inhibited star formation. About 20 luminous young blue stars which comprise the complex near-infrared source IRS16 may be the predominant source of ionizing radiation and hydrodynamic activity in the inner two parsecs of the Galaxy. An earlier argument that the distinction of IRS16 components precludes the existence of a million-solar-mass black hole at or near SGrA remains valid even if there are fewer than two dozen stars in IRS16.

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