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arxiv: 1507.05960 · v1 · pith:PBY7NBACnew · submitted 2015-07-21 · 🌌 astro-ph.HE · astro-ph.GA

AGN Flickering and Chaotic Accretion

Andrew King , Chris Nixon This is my paper
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Observational arguments suggest that the growth phases of the supermassive black holes in active galactic nuclei have a characteristic timescale $\sim 10^5$ yr. We show that this is the timescale expected in the chaotic accretion picture of black hole feeding, because of the effect of self-gravity in limiting the mass of any accretion disc feeding event.

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