Flickering light reveals supermassive black hole masses
Physics World
AUGUST 22, 2021
A correlation between the masses of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and the timings of fluctuations in the brightness of their accretion discs has been found by astronomers in the US and the UK. Colin Burke at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and colleagues believe that their discovery could help astronomers to better determine the masses of smaller supermassive black holes.
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