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An intermediate-mass black hole in the centre of the globular cluster 47 Tucanae

Bülent Kızıltan (), Holger Baumgardt and Abraham Loeb
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Bülent Kızıltan: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Holger Baumgardt: School of Mathematics and Physics, University of Queensland
Abraham Loeb: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Nature, 2017, vol. 542, issue 7640, 203-205

Abstract: The properties of pulsars in the globular cluster 47 Tucanae suggest that an intermediate-mass black hole is hidden in the cluster’s gas-starved central cavity.

Date: 2017
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