Formation of massive black holes through runaway collisions in dense young star clusters

Nature

Volumn 428, Issue 6984, 2004, Pages 724-726

  Portegies Zwart, Simon F ^a   Baumgardt, Holger ^b   Hut, Piet ^c   Makino, Junichiro ^d   McMillan, Stephen L W ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; GALAXIES; SOLAR ENERGY; X RAYS;

BLACK HOLES; LUMINOUS X-RAY SOURCE; RUNAWAY COLLISION; STARS;

ASTRONOMY;

ASTROPHYSICS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BLACK HOLE; CALCULATION; DYNAMICS; EVOLUTION; FRICTION; LUMINANCE; MASS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOTION; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; X RAY;

EID: 1942488271     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02448     Document Type: Article

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