Highly Accreting Supermassive Black Holes as Eddington Standard Candles

Supermassive black holes accreting matter at very high, perhaps even super-Eddington rates appear in the sky as a special class of luminous active galactic nuclei. The Eigenvector 1/quasar main sequence parameter space allows for the definition of easy-to-implement selection criteria in the rest-fra...

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Main Author: Paola Marziani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-02-01
Series:Physical Sciences Forum
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2673-9984/7/1/39