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Is There Really A Super-Massive Black Hole In M87?, Alessandro Marconi, David Axon, Duccio Macchetto
Is There Really A Super-Massive Black Hole In M87?, Alessandro Marconi, David Axon, Duccio Macchetto
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We present the first HST long-slit spectrum of a gaseous disk around a candidate super-massive black-hole. The results of this study on the kinematics of the gaseous disk in M87 are a considerable improvement in both spatial resolution and accuracy over previous observations and requires a projected mass of MBH(sin i)2 = (2.0 ± 0.5)×109M⊙ (MBH = 3.2×109M⊙ for a disk inclination i = 52◦) concentrated within a sphere whose radius is less than 0.′′05 (3.5 pc) to explain the observed rotation curve. The kinematics of the ionized gas is well described by a thin disk in keplerian motion. A …