Massive black holes in globular clusters

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Jul 1975

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1975natur.256...23b&link_type=abstract

Nature, vol. 256, July 3, 1975, p. 23, 24. NSF-supported research.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Black Holes (Astronomy), Globular Clusters, Stellar Evolution, X Ray Sources, Astronomical Models, Escape Velocity, Gravitational Collapse, Mass Transfer, Relaxation Time, Stellar Mass

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It is proposed that the observed X-ray emission in globular star clusters may be caused by the accretion of gas onto a massive black hole at the center of a cluster. The amount of accreting gas is estimated for a model cluster together with the minimum black hole mass and the X-ray luminosity. It is shown that the X-ray emission should be pointlike and located at the center of the cluster, and that there should be no eclipses and no orbital or spin periods observed in the X-ray flux. Possible explanations are considered for the model limitation that only a small fraction of the globular clusters in the galaxy are X-ray sources.

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