Might black hole distribution at the center be a cause or effect its overall form? One might ignorantly surmise that elliptical galaxies have a single central black hole, spiral galaxies two, some irregulars have more (or none).
-----Original Message----- From: math-fun [mailto:math-fun-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Warren D Smith Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2016 11:55 AM To: math-fun Subject: [math-fun] mini-me black hole in center of Milky Way
As is nowadays well known, the Milky Way contains a big central black hole, mass = 4*10^6 Msun. (The mass of the whole Milky Way is of order 10^12 Msun.)
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8205/816/1/L7 SIGNATURE OF AN INTERMEDIATE-MASS BLACK HOLE IN THE CENTRAL MOLECULAR ZONE OF OUR GALAXY Tomoharu Oka, Reiko Mizuno, Kodai Miura, and Shunya Takekawa Ap.J. letters
now claims evidence that orbiting it only about 200 light years away is a second hole with mass about 10^5 Msun.
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