Bahcall–Wolf cusp
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Bahcall–Wolf cusp
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Bahcall–Wolf cusp refers to a particular distribution of stars around a massive black hole at the center of a galaxy or globular cluster. If the nucleus containing the black hole is sufficiently old, exchange of orbital energy between stars drives their distribution toward a characteristic form, such that the density of stars, ρ, varies with distance from the black hole, r, as So far, no clear example of a Bahcall–Wolf cusp has been found in any galaxy or star cluster. This may be due in part to
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2023-09-20T17:36:48Z
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