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Nature Physics 5, 537 - 538 (2009)
doi:10.1038/nphys1356
Subject Category: Astrophysics
Astrophysics: A happy medium
M. Coleman Miller1
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M. Coleman Miller is in the Department of Astronomy and Maryland Astronomy Center for Theory and Computation, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742-2421, USA.
e-mail: miller@astro.umd.edu
Abstract
The case for the existence of intermediate-mass black holes, hundreds to thousands of times more massive than our Sun, has received a major boost — with implications for gravitational waves and clustered star formation.
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