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Stellar black holes in globular clusters
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Stellar black holes in globular clusters

S. R. Kulkarni, Piet Hut and Steve Mcmillan
Nature (London), v 364(6436), pp 421-423
29 Jul 1993

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ASTROPHYSICS
The recent discovery of large populations of millisec pulsars associated with neutron stars in globular clusters indicates that several hundred stellar black holes of about 10 solar masses each can form within a typical cluster. While, in clusters of high central density, the rapid dynamical evolution of the black-hole population leads to an ejection of nearly all holes on a short timescale, systems of intermediate density may involve a normal star's capture by one of the surviving holes to form a low-mass X-ray binary. One or more such binaries may be found in the globular clusters surrounding our galaxy.

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