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Supermassive Black Holes in Active Galactic Nuclei

Astrophysics 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

This article gives a brief overview of the direct and indirect evidence in support of the standard paradigm that active galactic nuclei are powered by supermassive black holes.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0003267,
  title  = {Supermassive Black Holes in Active Galactic Nuclei},
  author = {Luis C. Ho and John Kormendy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0003267},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

A review to appear in The Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics (Institute of Physics Publishing). TeX, 13 pages, including embedded figures