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Caught in the Act?

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

Which came first, the stars and gas that make up a galaxy, or the giant black hole at its centre? Observations of a distant galaxy, caught as it forms, could help solve this chicken-and-egg problem.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0408479,
  title  = {Caught in the Act?},
  author = {Zoltan Haiman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0408479},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

5 pages, published in Nature as an invited News and Views article on a Letter by Weidinger et al.(astro-ph/0408478) in the August 26, 2004 issue