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

Simon Portegies Zwart, Holger Baumgardt, Piet Hut, Junichiro Makino, Stephen L. W. McMillan

Nature · 2004 · 737 citations · 51 references

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Pavel Kroupa · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2001 · 7.5K citations · Full text

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How Massive Single Stars End Their Life

Alexander Heger, Chris L. Fryer, S. E. Woosley et al. · The Astrophysical Journal · 2003 · 2.2K citations · Full text

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The structure of star clusters. III. Some simple dvriamical models

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Binary Evolution in Stellar Dynamics

Douglas C. Heggie · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 1975 · 1.2K citations · Full text

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