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Three‐Body Kick to a Bright Quasar Out of Its Galaxy during a Merger

  • Authors: Loren Hoffman and Abraham Loeb

Hoffman & Loeb 2006 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 638 L75.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Fig. 1.

Top: Black hole trajectories following a three‐body ejection. The blue line shows the path of the intruder, and the red and yellow lines that of the binary members; each is plotted only until its first return to the galactic center. Time labels in units of 107 yr are marked off at various points along the trajectory, going out and returning. In the inset we zoom in on the innermost ±7 pc. Here the trajectories are plotted only up to the point of ejection (with return trajectories left out). One can clearly see the binary and intruder flying off in opposite directions at the end of the interaction. Bottom: The distribution of ejection velocities over all ~105 runs.

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