Press Releases

• Supermassive Black Hole Discovered in Andromeda Galaxy: NRC Canada, Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics (January 1987)
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• Supermassive Black Holes in Galaxy Nuclei: 170th AAS Meeting, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (June 16, 1987)

• Astronomers Discover Supermassive Black Hole in the Galaxy NGC 3115: NSF, the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy, and the University of Michigan. (July 10, 1992)
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• Hubble Opens Doorway to Systematic Search for Black Holes: STScI (February 21, 1996)
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• Massive Black Holes Dwell in Most Galaxies, According to Hubble Census: 189th AAS Meeting, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (January 13, 1997)
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• Ghost Galaxies: 193rd AAS Meeting, Austin, Texas (January 6, 1999)
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• Which Came First: The Black Hole or the Galaxy?: 195th AAS Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia (January 13, 2000)
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• Supermassive Black Holes and Galaxy Formation: 196th AAS Meeting, Rochester, New York (June 5, 2000)
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• Measuring Supermassive Black Holes in Distant Galaxies: 20th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, Austin, Texas (December 12, 2000)
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• Improved Evidence for Andromeda's Supermassive Black Hole: McDonald Observatory (September 20, 2005)
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• Hubble Finds Mysterious Disk of Blue Stars Around a Black Hole: Space Telescope Science Institute (September 20, 2005)
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• Hubble Finds Mysterious Disk of Blue Stars Around a Black Hole: ESA: The European Homepage for the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope (September 20, 2005)
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• Astrophysical Journal paper on which these press releases are based (1.5 Mb PDF):
  • Bender et al. 2005, ApJ, 631, 280

• Astronomers Discover Links Between Supermassive Black Holes and Galaxy Formation: McDonald Observatory (February 2, 2009)
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• Astronomers Discover Link Between Supermassive Black Holes and Galaxy Formation: National Science Foundation (February 2, 2009)
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• Astronomen entdecken Zusammenhang zwischen supermassereichen schwarzen Loechern und der Bildung von Galaxien: Max-Planck-Institut fuer Extraterrestrische Physik (Garching bei Muenchen) und Sternwarte der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (Muenchen)
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• Astrophysical Journal Letters paper on which these press releases are based:
  • Kormendy & Bender 2009, ApJ, 691, L142

• Astro-ph preprint of the above paper (freely accessible):
  • Kormendy & Bender 2009, arXiv:0901.3778

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