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2.4. Collisional stellar dynamics around a central galactic black hole

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

Marc Freitag  and
Willy Benz
Marc Freitag
Affiliation:
Observatoire de Genève, CH-1290 Sauverny, Switzerland
Willy Benz
Affiliation:
Physikalisches Institut, Universität Bern, Sidlerstrasse 5 CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland

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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.

Type
Part I. Stellar Cluster, Star Formation
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 184: The Central Regions of the Galaxy and Galaxies , 1998 , pp. 65 - 66
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1998 

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