A Dynamical Survey of Stellar-mass Black Holes in 50 Milky Way Globular Clusters

@article{Weatherford2020ADS,
  title={A Dynamical Survey of Stellar-mass Black Holes in 50 Milky Way Globular Clusters},
  author={Newlin C. Weatherford and Sourav Chatterjee and Kyle Kremer and Frederic A. Rasio},
  journal={The Astrophysical Journal},
  year={2020},
  volume={898},
  pages={162}
}
Recent numerical simulations of globular clusters (GCs) have shown that stellar-mass black holes (BHs) play a fundamental role in driving cluster evolution and shaping their present-day structure. Rapidly mass-segregating to the center of GCs, BHs act as a dynamical energy source via repeated super-elastic scattering, delaying onset of core collapse and limiting mass segregation for visible stars. While recent discoveries of BH candidates in Galactic and extragalactic GCs have further piqued… Expand
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