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| Paper: |
X-Ray Evidence for Supermassive Black Holes at the Centers of Nearby Galaxies |
| Volume: |
249, The Central Kiloparsec of Starbursts and AGN: the La Palma Connection |
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450 |
| Authors: |
Komossa, Stefanie |
| Abstract: |
During the last decade, much effort has been concentrated on the search for supermassive black holes in nearby galaxies. Here, we present a summary and follow-up work on some quite exceptional X-ray observations: the ROSAT discovery of giant-amplitude X-ray flares from several optically inactive galaxies. These observations are interpreted in terms of tidal disruption of a star by a supermassive black hole at the center of each flaring galaxy. |
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