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Orbital Motion in the Radio Galaxy 3C 66B: Evidence for a Supermassive Black Hole Binary

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arxiv astro-ph/0306103 v1 pith:FLUXMJ3K submitted 2003-06-05 astro-ph

Orbital Motion in the Radio Galaxy 3C 66B: Evidence for a Supermassive Black Hole Binary

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Supermassive black hole binaries may exist in the centers of active galactic nuclei like quasars and radio galaxies and mergers between galaxies may result in the formation of supermassive binaries during the course of galactic evolution. Using the very-long-baseline interferometer, we imaged the radio galaxy 3C 66B at radio frequencies and found that the unresolved radio core of 3C 66B shows well-defined elliptical motions with a period of 1.05 +/- 0.03 years, which provides a direct detection of a supermassive black hole binary.

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