See at http://www.nature.com/news/small-galaxy-harbours-super-hefty-black-hole-1.11913
Do you agree with Jenny Greene's conjecture on the formation of supermassive BH ?
This finding that the “black hole is about 59% as massive as the galaxy’s central bulge of stars which is a much higher percentage than expected” is significant. NGC 1277 supports and resolves one objection to the “Singularity Acceleration” hypothesis which requires that super massive black holes eventually consume a significant portion of their galaxy and galaxy cluster. The size of this SMBH does create an interesting question of how it got so big so fast.
Chris
So what if I agree or not. The NGC 1277 is certainly a fascinating object, but in physics we don't take polls.
The NGC 1277 ultra-massive black hole weighing about 17 billion solar mass carries almost 60% of the galactic bulge mass. This triggers a line of thought: - could it be that in the course of time, the central black holes of all spiral galaxies devour a large fraction of the bulge mass, and NGC 1277 just happens to be dynamically evolved? The observed correlation between black hole mass and bulge mass in spirals does suggest a causal link between the two.
Matts,
I totally agree - reality does not take polls nor for that matter care about polls, and scientific community consensus has been on occasion plain wrong (and might be in the present or future)
I was only trying to stimulate discussion.
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