A Candidate Runaway Supermassive Black Hole Identified by Shocks and Star Formation in its Wake

A Candidate Runaway Supermassive Black Hole Identified by Shocks and Star Formation in its Wake

The interaction of a runaway supermassive black hole (SMBH) with the circumgalactic medium (CGM) can lead to the formation of a wake of shocked gas and young stars behind it. Here we report the serendipitous discovery of an extremely narrow linear feature in Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Advanced Cam...

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Main Authors: Pieter van Dokkum, Imad Pasha, Maria Luisa Buzzo, Stephanie LaMassa, Zili Shen, Michael A. Keim, Roberto Abraham, Charlie Conroy, Shany Danieli, Kaustav Mitra, Daisuke Nagai, Priyamvada Natarajan, Aaron J. Romanowsky, Grant Tremblay, C. Megan Urry, Frank C. van den Bosch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2023-01-01
Series:The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Subjects:
Supermassive black holes
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/acba86

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https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/acba86

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