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THE suggestion has been made1,2 that the secondary component of the eclipsing binary system ε Aurigae is a black hole, the result of a stellar implosion. Current interest in the physics of black holes3 and the research by Wilson4 on the dynamics of the supernova phenomenon, which indicates that collapsed objects may be quite common in the galaxy, make Cameron's1 suggestion particularly intriguing.
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DEMARQUE, P., MORRIS, S. Is There a Black Hole in ε Aurigae?. Nature 230, 516–517 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/230516a0
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