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Peter Erwin
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  • Munich, Germany
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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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Why don't solar panels contribute to global warming?
Oct 9, 2018
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What's wrong with the Big Spin Model?
Oct 14, 2018
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Can one galaxy have a higher dark matter ratio than another?
Jan 27, 2020
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How can an ion ever capture an electron if an electron requires a precise momentum to match a subsequent orbital?
Oct 10, 2018
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Are there super-super black holes in the center of super clusters?
Jan 12, 2019
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Why are most ring galaxies present in the field instead of rich galaxy clusters?
Nov 5, 2022
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Accretion disc and infrared emission
Jul 15, 2018
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Why is most of the star formation that goes on in the milky way occurring in the spiral arms?
Jun 4, 2019
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Database of Galactic Mass?
Jul 1, 2019
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Measured Data Question regarding Galaxies with or without Dark Matter and Supermassive black holes
Nov 6, 2022
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Where do we have it from that the Moon is migrating away from Earth?
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Is oxygen really the most abundant element on the surface of the Moon?
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Is Earth's Surface "In orbit"?
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Were there occasions when a sovereign country voluntarily joined another country?
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Are there observable changes in a star about to become supernova, minutes or hours before the explosion?

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