Hunting For "Wnadering" Black Holes In Dwarf Galaxies
Tracking down black holes at the center of dwarf galaxies has proven difficult. In part that is because they have a tendency to wander and are not located at the galaxys center. There are plenty of galaxies that might contain such a black hole, but so far weve had insufficient data to confirm their existence. A new paper from Megan Sturm of Montana State University and her colleagues analyzed additional data from Chandra and Hubble on a set of 12 potential Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) galaxy candidates. They were only able to confirm three, which highlights the difficulty in isolating these massive wanderers.