A Fundamental Relation Between Supermassive Black Holes and Their Host Galaxies

Ferrarese, L., & Merritt, D. (2000). A Fundamental Relation Between Supermassive Black Holes and Their Host Galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

2000

DOI

10.1086/312838

Link

https://doi.org/10.1086/312838

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1 citation across 1 artifact.

Domain-specific

• M–Sigma Relation
  • The original 2000 discoveries found a much tighter relation than earlier black-hole-mass correlations with bulge luminosity, though their fitted slopes differed because of samples, dispersion definitions, measurements, and regression choices.

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