Supermassive Black Holes and the Evolution of Galaxies
Astrophysics
2011-05-10 v1
Abstract
Black holes, an extreme consequence of the mathematics of General Relativity, have long been suspected of being the prime movers of quasars, which emit more energy than any other objects in the Universe. Recent evidence indicates that supermassive black holes, which are probably quasar remnants, reside at the centers of most galaxies. As our knowledge of the demographics of these relics of a violent earlier Universe improve, we see tantalizing clues that they participated intimately in the formation of galaxies and have strongly influenced their present-day structure.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9810378,
title = {Supermassive Black Holes and the Evolution of Galaxies},
author = {D. Richstone and E. A. Ajhar and R. Bender and G. Bower and A. Dressler and S. M. Faber and A. V. Filippenko and K. Gebhardt and R. Green and L. C. Ho and J. Kormendy and T. Lauer and J. Magorrian and S. Tremaine},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9810378},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
20 pages, - This is a near-duplicate of the paper in Nature 395, A14, 1998 (Oct 1)