Homework Help: Astronomy

Posted by qwerty on Saturday, March 16, 2013 at 1:41am.

Which event is likely to trigger rapid growth in supermassive black hole mass?

-A merger of two gas-rich galaxies.
-Direct collisions of stellar-mass black holes in collapsing globular clusters.
-Tidal disruption of a dwarf elliptical galaxy by a large elliptical galaxy.
-A supernova in immediate vicinity of the accretion disk.

No one has answered this question yet.

Answer this Question

Related Questions

space/astronomy - Rank the objects based on the strength of the gravitational ...
Physics - A spacecraft in the shape of a long cylinder has a length of 100 m, ...
Physics - The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has recorded evidence of a black hole...
Physics! - The two stars in a certain binary star system move in circular orbits...
physics question - A spacecraft in the shape of a long cylinder has a length of ...
math - Scientists believe that there is an extremly massive black hole at the ...
Cosmology - What can we say about the future evolution of irregular clusters? ...
Physics - X-ray pulses from Cygnus X-1, a celestial x- ray source, have been ...
Miami Dade - X-ray pulses from Cygnus X-1, a celestial x- ray source, have been ...
Astronomy - Mergers of two supermassive black holes will be major sources for ...

For Further Reading

First Name:
School Subject:
Answer: