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Dense star clusters may help black hole mergers: MIT study
short by Gaurav Shroff / on Thursday, 12 April, 2018
An MIT-led team of astronomers has suggested black holes may merge multiple times, producing more massive black holes than those from single stars. These "second-generation mergers" should come from dense stellar clusters usually at galaxy edges that are packed with up to millions of stars, said researchers. Such black hole mergers can be detected by their accompanying gravitational waves.
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