Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
May 1992
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992aipc..254...44o&link_type=abstract
In: Testing the AGN paradigm; Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Topical Astrophysics Conference, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, Oc
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
8
Active Galactic Nuclei, Active Galaxies, Massive Stars, Milky Way Galaxy, Seyfert Galaxies, Gravitational Fields, Interstellar Gas, Ionized Gases, Morphology
Scientific paper
Although there are some flaws in each of the methods to constrain the black hole mass, which are described in the above paper, all of them unambiguously indicate that the mass of a putative black hole at the Galactic center is much smaller than a widely quoted value, about 10 exp 6 M(solar). Possibly, the mass of the black hole, if any, does not exceed 100 M(solar) or so. Further work is needed in order to distinguish between such a modest-mass black hole and its potential rival such as a very massive star of about the same mass. Anyway, the Galactic nucleus seems to be a tracer of a past star burst rather than a remnant of a Seyfert galaxy activity.
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