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Spectroscopic Evidence for a Supermassive Black Hole in NGC 4486B

Spectroscopic Evidence for a Supermassive Black Hole in NGC 4486B

The stellar kinematics of the dwarf elliptical galaxy NGC 4486B have been measured in seeing sigma_* = .22 arcsec with the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope. Lauer et al. 1996, ApJ, 471, L79 have shown that NGC 4486B is similar to M31 in having a double nucleus. We show that it also resembles …