Small Black Hole’s Mass Determined By Astronomers Using Reverberation Mapping
If astronomers aspire to discern about how supermassive black holes shape, they have to begin small—actually small, speaking astronomically. Indeed, a team comprising astronomer Elena Gallo of the University of Michigan has found that a black hole at the core of a close by dwarf galaxy, dubbed NGC 4395, is around 40x smaller than earlier…