A Nobel, a black hole and oddly heavy stars

Опубликовано: 06 Август 2026
на канале: Thomas Rintoul
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A star cluster and a supermassive black hole may have led to a Nobel Prize, but that star cluster is very odd indeed.

Ghez et al. 1998: https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9807210
Genzel et al. 1996: https://doi.org/10.1086/178051
Gurkan et al. 2005: https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0412452

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