Masses of Black Holes in the Universe
Astrophysics
2008-08-05 v1
Abstract
The different methods of determination of black holes (BHs) masses are presented for three classes of BHs observed in the Universe: stellar mass BHs, intermediate mass BHs (IMBHs) and supermassive BHs (SBHs). The results of these determinations are briefly reviewed: stellar mass BHs are found in the range of about 3 to about 20 solar masses, IMBHs in the range of a few hundreds to a few tens of thousands solar masses (the determinations are much less precise for these objects) and SBHs in the range of about 3x10^5 to about 6x10^10 solar masses.
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@article{arxiv.0808.0435,
title = {Masses of Black Holes in the Universe},
author = {Janusz Ziolkowski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0808.0435},
year = {2008}
}
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Presented at Vulcano 2007 Workshop: "Multifrequency Behaviour of High Energy Cosmic Sources"