Active Galaxies: Overview

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke2356m&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 2356. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Galaxies, Active Galaxies, Quasars And Galactic Nuclei

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Defining an `ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEUS' (AGN) can be difficult. The last two words are relatively simple, as an AGN is an energetic event which is never found anywhere in the universe except within the central parsecs of a galaxy. This is not surprising, because any dynamical friction should soon force any very massive compact object to settle down into the center of the galactic gravitational pote...

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