A 20 Thousand Solar Mass Black Hole in the Stellar Cluster G1

Details A 20 Thousand Solar Mass Black Hole in the Stellar Cluster G1 A 20 Thousand Solar Mass Black Hole in the Stellar Cluster G1

2002-09-16

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0209313v1

Astrophys.J. 578 (2002) L41-L46

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, accepted in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, October 2002

Scientific paper

10.1086/342980

We present the detection of a 2.0(+1.4,-0.8)x10^4 solar mass black hole (BH) in the stellar cluster G1 (Mayall II), based on data taken with the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph onboard the Hubble Space Telescope. G1 is one of the most massive stellar clusters in M31. The central velocity dispersion (25 kms) and the measured BH mass of G1 places it on a linear extrapolation of the correlation between BH mass and bulge velocity dispersion established for nearby galaxies. The detection of a BH in this low-mass stellar system suggests that (1) the most likely candidates for seed massive BHs come from stellar clusters, (2) there is a direct link between massive stellar clusters and normal galaxies, and (3) the formation process of both bulges and massive clusters is similar due to their concordance in the M_BH/sigma relation. Globular clusters in our Galaxy should be searched for central BHs.

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