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2.4. Collisional stellar dynamics around a central galactic black hole
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 May 2016
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Massive but invisible black holes (BH) are often assumed to lurk in the center of many galaxies but definitive proof of their existence has not yet been established. However, in the surrounding stellar cluster stars are unavoidably being destroyed by tidal disruptions and stellar collisions liberating of order 1M⊙ in each event. The subsequent accretion of this gas by the BH could bring it back to “life” and reveal its presence.
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- Part I. Stellar Cluster, Star Formation
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