Intermediate-mass black hole

Globular cluster Mayall II (M31 G1) is a possible candidate for hosting an intermediate-mass black hole at its center[1]

An intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) is a class of black hole with mass in the range of one hundred to one hundred thousand (102–105) solar masses: significantly higher than stellar black holes but lower than the hundred thousand to more than one billion (105–109) solar mass supermassive black holes.[2][3][4] Several IMBH candidate objects have been discovered in the Milky Way galaxy and others nearby, based on indirect gas cloud velocity and accretion disk spectra observations of various evidentiary strength.

  1. ^ Gebhardt, Karl; Rich, R. M.; Ho, Luis C. (December 2005), "An Intermediate-Mass Black Hole in the Globular Cluster G1: Improved Significance from New Keck and Hubble Space Telescope Observations", The Astrophysical Journal, 634 (2): 1093–1102, arXiv:astro-ph/0508251, Bibcode:2005ApJ...634.1093G, doi:10.1086/497023, S2CID 119049663
  2. ^ Greene, Jenny (July 1, 2022). "Intermediate-mass Black Holes in Galaxies". 44th COSPAR Scientific Assembly. 44: 2201 – via NASA ADS.
  3. ^ Jiang, Yan-Fei; Greene, Jenny E.; Ho, Luis C.; Xiao, Ting; Barth, Aaron J. (2011), "The Host Galaxies of Low-mass Black Holes"
  4. ^ Graham, Alister W.; Scott, Nicholas (2015), "The (Black Hole)-bulge Mass Scaling Relation at Low Masses"

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