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.
Cite
@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