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ALMA Weighs Supermassive Black Hole at Center of Distant Spiral Galaxy

2015-06-25 15:16:14| rfglobalnet Home Page

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have measured the mass of the supermassive black hole at the center of NGC 1097 -- a barred spiral galaxy located approximately 45 million light-years away in the direction of the constellation Fornax. The researchers determined that this galaxy harbors a black hole 140 million times more massive than our Sun.

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