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Supermassive Black Holes and Galaxy Formation

Joseph Silk

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0109325

Abstract

The formation of supermassive black holes (SMBH) is intimately related to galaxy formation, although precisely how remains a mystery. I speculate that formation of, and feedback from, SMBH may alleviate problems that have arisen in our understanding of the cores of dark halos of galaxies.

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