We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
Orbital motion in the radio galaxy 3C 66B: evidence for a supermassive black hole binary.
- Authors
Sudou, Hiroshi; Iguchi, Satoru; Murata, Yasuhiro; Taniguchi, Yoshiaki
- Abstract
Supermassive black hole binaries may exist in the centers of active galactic nuclei such as quasars and radio galaxies, and mergers between galaxies may result in the formation of supermassive binaries during the course of galactic evolution. Using the very-long-baseline interferometer, we imaged the radio galaxy 3C 66B at radio frequencies and found that the unresolved radio core of 3C 66B shows well-defined elliptical motions with a period of 1.05 +/- 0.03 years, which provides a direct detection of a supermassive black hole binary.
- Publication
Science (New York, N.Y.), 2003, Vol 300, Issue 5623, p1263
- ISSN
1095-9203
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1126/science.1082817