An over-massive black hole in the compact lenticular galaxy NGC 1277
@article{Bosch2012AnOB, title={An over-massive black hole in the compact lenticular galaxy NGC 1277}, author={Remco van den Bosch and Karl Gebhardt and Kayhan G{\"u}ltekin and Glenn van de Ven and Arjen van der Wel and Jonelle L. Walsh}, journal={Nature}, year={2012}, volume={491}, pages={729-731} }
Most massive galaxies have supermassive black holes at their centres, and the masses of the black holes are believed to correlate with properties of the host-galaxy bulge component. Several explanations have been proposed for the existence of these locally established empirical relationships, including the non-causal, statistical process of galaxy–galaxy merging, direct feedback between the black hole and its host galaxy, and galaxy–galaxy merging and the subsequent violent relaxation and…
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