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Wandering Supermassive Black Holes in Milky-Way-mass Halos

  • Authors: Michael Tremmel, Fabio Governato, Marta Volonteri, Andrew Pontzen, and Thomas R. Quinn

2018 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 857 L22.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

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SMBH locations within disk galaxies. The distribution of polar angles relative to halo center and the the plane of the galactic disk for wandering SMBHs (0.7 < D < 10 kpc) in MW-mass disk galaxies from ROMULUS25 (blue line). The dashed black line represents the expectation from randomly sampling a unit sphere. In ROMULUS25, wandering SMBHs show a clear preference to exist out of the disk plane.

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