by Lucas Brown | Apr 5, 2023 | Daily Paper Summaries
Measuring the mass of black holes in the centers of far away galaxies can be tricky, but today’s paper demonstrates the viability of a new method in this field: gravitational lensing!
by John Weaver | Mar 13, 2019 | Daily Paper Summaries
A novel approach to estimate their mass may help reveal the relationship between supermassive black holes and the galaxies they inhabit.
by Suk Sien Tie | Mar 21, 2016 | Daily Paper Summaries
Biased supermassive black hole samples may compromise well-known black hole-galaxy scaling relations.
by Dan Gifford | Aug 7, 2012 | Daily Paper Summaries
Need to improve a relationship between 2 parameters? Why not try adding a 3rd!
by Nick Hand | Mar 17, 2012 | Daily Paper Summaries
The authors of this analysis use the largest, high-resolution cosmological N-body simulation to date, the Millennium-XXL, to investigate sources of scatter in cluster scaling relations. They find that a wide range of biases can affect the most commonly used scaling relations.