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astro-ph2003★ 19 cited
Cosmological Mestel Disks and the Rossby Vortex Instability: The Origin of Supermassive Black Holes
Stirling A. Colgate, Renyue Cen, Hui Li +2
A scenario is put forth for the formation of supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies. It depends upon the formation of a Mestel disk with a flat rotation curve, where t…
astro-ph2003★ 195 cited
3-Dimensional Core-Collapse
C. L. Fryer, M. S. Warren
In this paper, we present the results of 3-dimensional collapse simulations of rotating stars for a range of stellar progenitors. We find that for the fastest spinning stars, rotat…
astro-ph2003★ 74 cited
Diffuse X-Rays from the Inner 3 Parsecs of the Galaxy
Gabriel Rockefeller, Chris L. Fryer, Fulvio Melia +1
Recent observations with the Chandra X-ray Observatory have provided us with the capability to discriminate point sources, such as the supermassive black hole Sgr A*, from the diff…