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by Gene Partlow
Sun Aug 27, 2006 8:14 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: Barred spiral NGC 1300, does have SMBH! (APOD 27 Aug 2006)
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Barred spiral NGC 1300, does have SMBH! (APOD 27 Aug 2006)

Hi - Your 8-27-06 APOD says NGC 1300 has NO central supermassive
black hole. However, a search at the Harvard ADS site shows that
in May, 2005 a group found evidence for one weighing in at several
10^7 solar masses.

See
arXiv:astro-ph/0502573

cheers
Gene