An Accreting Supermassive Black Hole Buried in a Faint Dwarf Galaxy

In the last decade, there have been several discoveries of active galactic nuclei (AGN) in dwarf galaxies including an AGN in an ultracompact dwarf galaxy with a black hole mass >10 ^6 M _⊙ . However, finding a supermassive black hole (SMBH) in a dwarf low surface brightness (LSB) galaxy is rare....

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Published in:The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Main Authors: Abhishek Paswan, Mousumi Das, K Rubinur
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2024-01-01
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ad7388