Supermassive black hole demographics: evading M − σ
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0035-8711,1365-2966
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz1569