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14 : GALAXY NUCLEI & NUCLEAR BLACK HOLES

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(1) Introduction
(2) Finding Nuclear Black Holes
(3) Difficulties
(4) Case Studies
      (a) M87 : Giant Elliptical
      (b) M84 : Another Giant Elliptical
      (c) NGC 3115 : Edge on S0
      (d) M31 : Nearby Luminous Sb
      (e) M32 : Nearby Compact dE
      (f) NGC 4258 : Sbc Galaxy
      (g) Milky Way Nucleus
(5) Influence of Nuclear BHs on Star Distributions
      (a) In Situ Growth of Black Holes
      (b) Star Scattering and Orbit Modification
      (c) Binary Black Holes
(6) Black Hole Demographics
      (a) A Major New Component of Galaxies
      (b) The Ubiquity of Nuclear Black Holes
      (c) Ties to the Bulge
(7) Black Holes and Galaxy Evolution
(8) The Galactic Center as Typical Galaxy Nucleus