Is the black hole in NGC 1277 really overmassive?

A recent claim has been made by van den Bosch et al. that the fast-rotator galaxy NGC 1277 hosts an overmassive black hole with a mass (1.7 × 1010 M) larger than half its (central) stellar spheroid mass. We revisit this claim here by examining the predictions from simple dynamical realizations based...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2013-08, Vol.433 (3), p.1862-1870
1. Verfasser:	Emsellem, Eric
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Approximation Black holes Kinematics Star & galaxy formation Velocity
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