The Accretion luminosity of a massive black hole in an elliptical galaxy

@article{Fabian1995TheAL,
  title={The Accretion luminosity of a massive black hole in an elliptical galaxy},
  author={Andrew C. Fabian and Martin J. Rees},
  journal={Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society},
  year={1995},
  volume={277},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:18890265}
}
  • A. FabianM. Rees
  • Published 19 September 1995
  • Physics
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Most large elliptical galaxies should now host a massive black hole leftover from an earlier quasar phase. Such galaxies also have an extensive hot gaseous halo. Here we consider why the nuclei of… 
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