Is there an upper limit to black hole masses?
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Is there an upper limit to black hole masses ?
We make a case for the existence for ultra-massive black holes (UMBHs) in the Universe, but argue that there exists a likely upper limit to black hole masses of the order of M ∼ 1010M⊙. We show that there are three strong lines of argument that predicate the existence of UMBHs: (i) expected as a natural extension of the observed black hole mass bulge luminosity relation, when extrapolated to th...
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عنوان ژورنال: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0035-8711,1365-2966
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13864.x