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Peter Erwin

Astronomer at the Max-Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, specializing in supermassive black holes and galaxy morphology, dynamics, and evolution.

Open-source code for fitting images of galaxies: www.mpe.mpg.de/~erwin/code/imfit

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83 Why don't solar panels contribute to global warming? Oct 9 '18
5 What's wrong with the Big Spin Model? Oct 14 '18
3 Are there super-super black holes in the center of super clusters? Jan 12
3 How can an ion ever capture an electron if an electron requires a precise momentum to match a subsequent orbital? Oct 10 '18
2 Accretion disc and infrared emission Jul 15 '18
2 Why is most of the star formation that goes on in the milky way occurring in the spiral arms? Jun 4
1 Database of Galactic Mass? Jul 1
1 How does the formation of a solar system not break the second law of thermodynamics? Dec 12 '14
0 Why can detecting middleweight black holes be harder than the other types? Jul 26 '18
0 Effects of dark matter Feb 14
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