Detecting the orbital motion of nearby supermassive black hole binaries with Gaia
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DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.100.103016
Abstract: We show that a 10 year Gaia mission could astrometrically detect the orbital motion of ~1 sub-parsec separation supermassive black hole binary in the heart of nearby, bright active galactic nuclei (AGN). Candidate AGN lie… read more here.
Keywords: orbital motion; supermassive black; detecting orbital; black hole ... See more keywords