A close quasar pair in a disk-disk galaxy merger at z = 2.17.
Journal
Nature
ISSN: 1476-4687
Titre abrégé: Nature
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0410462
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
04 2023
04 2023
Historique:
received:
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09
2022
accepted:
26
01
2023
medline:
7
4
2023
entrez:
5
4
2023
pubmed:
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4
2023
Statut:
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Résumé
Galaxy mergers produce pairs of supermassive black holes (SMBHs), which may be witnessed as dual quasars if both SMBHs are rapidly accreting. The kiloparsec (kpc)-scale separation represents a physical regime sufficiently close for merger-induced effects to be important
Identifiants
pubmed: 37020007
doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-05766-6
pii: 10.1038/s41586-023-05766-6
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Journal Article
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Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
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eng
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Organisme : NASA
ID : GO2-23099X
Pays : United States
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© 2023. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.
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