# A Population of Bona Fide Intermediate-mass Black Holes Identified as Low-luminosity Active Galactic Nuclei

@article{Chilingarian2018APO,
title={A Population of Bona Fide Intermediate-mass Black Holes Identified as Low-luminosity Active Galactic Nuclei},
author={Igor V. Chilingarian and Ivan Yu. Katkov and I. Yu. Zolotukhin and Kirill A Grishin and Yuri Beletsky and Konstantina Boutsia and David James Osip},
journal={The Astrophysical Journal},
year={2018}
}
Nearly every massive galaxy harbors a supermassive black hole (SMBH) in its nucleus. SMBH masses are millions to billions $M_{\odot}$, and they correlate with properties of spheroids of their host galaxies. While the SMBH growth channels, mergers and gas accretion, are well established, their origin remains uncertain: they could have either emerged from massive "seeds" ($10^5-10^6 M_{\odot}$) formed by direct collapse of gas clouds in the early Universe or from smaller ($100 M_{\odot}$) black… Expand

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