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The Hubble Space Telescope has revolutionized our knowledge of these super-massive black holes. By measuring the motions of stars and gas in the centers of galaxies, Hubble has not only proven their existence but also directly determined their masses. The Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) is particularly well suited for such studies. STIS is now allowing us to address the demography of the super-massive black hole population.
A special session entitled `Supermassive Black Hole Research and
Advances with STIS' at the American Astronomical Society meeting in
Rochester drew together astronomers to discuss newly emerging
results. Earlier reports were confirmed that supermassive black holes
may well exist in all galaxies, and that the black-hole mass
correlates loosely with the mass of the galaxy bulge. In addition, two
groups independently reported a strong correlation between the mass
of the black hole in a galaxy and the magnitude of the random motions
of its stars.
These results provide new insight into the origin of supermassive black holes. One plausible scenario is that galaxies and their black holes form simultaneously in an phase that manifests itself through strong quasar activity. This is quantitatively consistent with the statistics of quasars in the distant Universe and with the statistics of black holes in the nearby Universe.
In the coming years, further studies of super-massive black holes
using STIS will undoubtedly bring a clearer understanding of the
origin and demographics of these remarkable objects.
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