A black hole in a globular cluster

Nature

Volumn 445, Issue 7124, 2007, Pages 183-185

  Maccarone, Thomas J ^a   Kundu, Arunav ^b   Zepf, Stephen E ^b   Rhode, Katherine L ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; COSMOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

ARTICLE; COSMIC RADIATION; LUMINANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPACE; SUN;

EID: 33846259088     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05434     Document Type: Article

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