Supermassive Black Holes: From the Sublime to the Ordinary

Details Supermassive Black Holes: From the Sublime to the Ordinary Supermassive Black Holes: From the Sublime to the Ordinary

May 2001

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001aas...198.8401g&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, 198th AAS Meeting, #84.01; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 33, p.912

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

1

Scientific paper

In the past few years, supermassive black holes have gone from being considered possible oddities at the centers of galaxies to fundamental components of galaxies. This shift is due primarily to data taken with the Hubble Space Telescope which show that all bulge systems have supermassive black holes that correlate closely with properties of its host galaxy. These results strongly affect both formational and evolutionary scenarios for both black hole and galaxy. I will present the current state of our observational understanding, as well as results from 3-integral dynamical modelling. In addition to presenting black hole masses from spatially-resolved kinematics, I will present results calibrating reverberation and ionization models of AGNs. It appears that both of these techniques provide realiable measurements, and will therefore be essential to helping us understand the evolutionary history of supermassive black hole growth.

Affiliated with

Also associated with

No associations

Rating

Supermassive Black Holes: From the Sublime to the Ordinary does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this scientific paper.

If you have personal experience with Supermassive Black Holes: From the Sublime to the Ordinary, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Supermassive Black Holes: From the Sublime to the Ordinary will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

Comments { 0 }

Profile ID: LFWR-SCP-O-1271206