Compact Massive Object in Galaxies

TL;DR

This paper analyzes a large dataset of Compact Massive Objects in galaxies, exploring their properties and correlations with host galaxy characteristics to understand their nature and relationships.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive analysis of Compact Massive Objects, highlighting their similarities and correlations with host galaxy properties, suggesting a unified understanding.

Findings

Compact Massive Objects correlate with galaxy magnitude and velocity dispersion.

Supermassive black holes and dense stellar clusters may form a continuum.

The study supports the idea of a common family of Compact Massive Objects.

Abstract

The central regions of galaxies show the presence of super massive black holes and/or very dense stellar clusters. Both objects seem to follow similar host-galaxy correlations, suggesting that they are members of the same family of Compact Massive Objects. We investigate here a huge data collection of Compact Massive Objects properties to correlate them with absolute magnitude, velocity dispersion and mass of their host galaxies.