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Analytical binary black hole model of Sgr A* and its implications

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2006

Tapan K. Chatterjee
Tapan K. Chatterjee*
Affiliation:
University of the Americas, Department of Physics, A. P. 1316, Puebla, Mexico e-mail: chtapan@yahoo.com
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Abstract

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Surrounding the Galactic center is a molecular cloud with a central black hole. This raises the question as to how the hole was formed. While clouds containing HCN are circulating around the Galactic center, they do not all move at the same speed and so collide mutually and should make a more uniform motion and distribution after a period of some 100 kyrs (e.g., Ekers, van Gorkom, Schwartz et al. 1983). Hence some very energetic phenomena must have occurred within that period.

Keywords

Black hole physics – galaxies: nuclei
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 2 , Symposium S238: Black Holes from Stars to Galaxies – Across the Range of Masses , August 2006 , pp. 337 - 338
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2007

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