In:
Science, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Vol. 337, No. 6094 ( 2012-08-03), p. 554-556
Abstract:
Relativistic jets are streams of plasma moving at appreciable fractions of the speed of light. They have been observed from stellar-mass black holes (~3 to 20 solar masses, M ☉ ) as well as supermassive black holes (~10 6 to 10 9 M ☉ ) found in the centers of most galaxies. Jets should also be produced by intermediate-mass black holes (~10 2 to 10 5 M ☉ ), although evidence for this third class of black hole has, until recently, been weak. We report the detection of transient radio emission at the location of the intermediate-mass black hole candidate ESO 243-49 HLX-1, which is consistent with a discrete jet ejection event. These observations also allow us to refine the mass estimate of the black hole to be between ~9 × 10 3 M ☉ and ~9 × 10 4 M ☉ .
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0036-8075
,
1095-9203
DOI:
10.1126/science.1222779
Language:
English
Publisher:
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Publication Date:
2012
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128410-1
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2066996-3
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2060783-0
SSG:
11
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