Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-mkpzs Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-25T15:35:50.676Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Constraints to the Mass of a Black Hole at the Galactic Centre

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

L.M. Ozernoy
L.M. Ozernoy*
Affiliation:
Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow, USSR

Extract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

Many speculations related to a hypothesis that there is a very massive black hole at the centre of our Galaxy have appeared during the last years. This hypothesis is based, firstly, on the opinion that the formation of a massive black hole as a result of dynamical evolution of galactic nuclei is inevitable and, secondly, on the attempts to explain the nature of the “point source” at the Galactic centre (see Oort, 1977 and references therein). However both these approaches could not predict with any confidence the black hole mass. The estimates range from 107-1011 Mʘ (Novikov and Thorne, 1973) to 104 Mʘ (Shklovskii, 1976).

Type
Part II: Evolution of the Central Parts of the Galaxy
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 45: Chemical and Dynamical Evolution of our Galaxy , September 1977 , pp. 121 - 124
Copyright
Copyright © Geneva Observatory 1977

References

Dokuchaev, V.I. and Ozernoy, L.M. 1977a, Preprint Lebedev Physical Institute No. 137; Pis’ma Astr. Zh. 3, 391 Google Scholar
Dokuchaev, V.I. and Ozernoy, L.M. 1977b, Preprint Lebedev Physical Institute No. 133; Zh. Exp. Teor. Fiz. (in press)Google Scholar
Dokuchaev, V.I. and Ozernoy, L.M. 1977c, Preprint Lebedev Physical Institute No. 134; Astr. Zh. (in press)Google Scholar
Hills, J.G. 1975, Nature 254, 295 Google Scholar
Lidskii, V.V. and Ozernoy, L.M. 1977, Pis’ma Astr. Zh. 3, No. 12 Google Scholar
Lynden-Bell, D. 1969, Nature 223, 690 Google Scholar
Novikov, I.D. and Thorne, K.S. 1973, In “Black Holes”, Eds de Witt, C. and de Witt, B. (Gordon & Breach, N.Y.), p. 343 Google Scholar
Oort, J.H. 1977, Ann. Rev. Astr. Astrophys. 15 (in press)Google Scholar
Ozernoy, L.M. 1976, Observatory 96, 67 Google Scholar
Ruiz, M.T. 1976, Astrophys. J. 207, 382 Google Scholar
Ryan, M.P. 1972, Astrophys. J. 127, L79 Google Scholar
Shklovskii, I.S. 1976, Pis’ma Astr. Zh. 2, No. 7, p. 3 Google Scholar