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In this paper, we discuss how globular clusters (GCs) structural and observational properties can be used to infer the presence of a black hole system (BHS) inhabiting their inner regions. We propose a novel way to identify the BHS size,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-01 Manuel Arca Sedda , Abbas Askar , Mirek Giersz

Machine learning is a powerful technique, becoming increasingly popular in astrophysics. In this paper, we apply machine learning to more than a thousand globular cluster (GC) models simulated as part of the 'MOCCA-Survey Database I'…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-13 Ammar Askar , Abbas Askar , Mario Pasquato , Mirek Giersz

In this work, we investigate the black hole (BH) population of globular clusters (GCs) in Milky Way- (MW) and Andromeda- (M31) like galaxies. We combine the population synthesis code MASinGa and the MOCCA-Survey Database I to infer the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-01 A. Leveque , M. Giersz , A. Askar , M. Arca-Sedda , A. Olejak

In this paper we explore the interplay between intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) and their nursing globular clusters (GCs), taking advantage of over 2000 Monte Carlo GC models. We find that the average density of IMBHs sphere of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-06 Manuel Arca Sedda , Abbas Askar , Mirek Giersz

In this first of a series of papers, we utilize results for around two thousand star cluster models simulated using the MOCCA code for star cluster evolution (Survey Database I) to determine the astrophysical properties and local merger…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-10 Abbas Askar , Magdalena Szkudlarek , Dorota Gondek-Rosińska , Mirek Giersz , Tomasz Bulik

Black holes (BHs) play a major role in the structural and dynamical evolutions of Globular Clusters (GCs). Several recent works searched for BHs in Galactic GCs using scaling relations derived from numerical simulations. However, the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-20 Alessandro Della Croce

Recent numerical simulations of globular clusters (GCs) have shown that stellar-mass black holes (BHs) play a fundamental role in driving cluster evolution and shaping their present-day structure. Rapidly mass-segregating to the center of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-12 Newlin C. Weatherford , Sourav Chatterjee , Kyle Kremer , Frederic A. Rasio

Sizeable number of stellar-mass black holes (BHs) in globular clusters (GCs) can strongly influence the dynamical evolution and observational properties of their host cluster. Using results from a large set of numerical simulations, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-18 Abbas Askar , Mirek Giersz , Manuel Arca Sedda , Ammar Askar , Mario Pasquato , Agostino Leveque

Populations of stellar-mass black holes (BHs) in globular clusters (GCs) influence their dynamical evolution and have important implications on one of the main formation channels for gravitational wave sources. Inferring the size of these…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-14 Nolan Dickson , Peter J. Smith , Vincent Hénault-Brunet , Mark Gieles , Holger Baumgardt

Globular clusters could harbor massive central black holes (BHs), just as galaxies do. So far, no unambiguous detection of a massive BH has been reported for any globular cluster. However, the dense core-collapsed cluster M15 seems to be a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Roeland P. van der Marel

Numerical simulations have shown that black holes (BHs) can strongly influence the evolution and present-day observational properties of globular clusters (GCs). Using a Monte Carlo code, we construct GC models that match the Milky Way (MW)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-21 Kyle Kremer , Claire S. Ye , Sourav Chatterjee , Carl L. Rodriguez , Frederic A. Rasio

Recent studies suggest that globular clusters (GCs) may retain a substantial population of stellar-mass black holes (BHs), in contrast to the long-held belief of a few to zero BHs. We model the population of BH low-mass X-ray binaries…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-28 Matthew Giesler , Drew Clausen , Christian D. Ott

Recent discoveries of black hole (BH) candidates in Galactic and extragalactic globular clusters (GCs) have ignited interest in understanding how BHs dynamically evolve in a GC and the number of BHs ($N_{\rm{BH}}$) that may still be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 Newlin C. Weatherford , Sourav Chatterjee , Carl L. Rodriguez , Frederic A. Rasio

Supermassive Black Holes (BHs) residing in brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) are overly massive when considering the local relationships between the BH mass and stellar bulge mass or velocity dispersion. Due to the location of these BHs…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-01 Frederika Phipps , Akos Bogdan , Lorenzo Lovisari , Orsolya E. Kovacs , Marta Volonteri , Yohan Dubois

While tens or hundreds of stellar-remnant black holes are expected to form in globular star clusters, it is still unclear how many of those will be retained upon formation, and how many will be ejected through subsequent dynamical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 Anna C. Sippel , Jarrod R. Hurley

The dynamical formation of binary black holes (BBHs) in globular clusters (GCs) may contribute significantly to the observed gravitational wave (GW) merger rate. Furthermore, LISA may detect many BBH sources from GCs at mHz frequencies,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-13 Zeyuan Xuan , Kyle Kremer , Smadar Naoz

We estimate the rate of gravitational microlensing events of cluster stars due to black holes (BHs) in the globular cluster NGC 5139 ($\omega Cen$). Theory and observations both indicate that $\omega Cen$ may contain thousands of BHs, but…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-12 John Zaris , Doğa Veske , Johan Samsing , Zsuzsa Márka , Imre Bartos , Szabolcs Márka

Globular clusters should be born with significant numbers of stellar-mass black holes (BHs). It has been thought for two decades that very few of these BHs could be retained through the cluster lifetime. With masses ~10 MSun, BHs are ~20…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 Meagan Morscher , Stefan Umbreit , Will M. Farr , Frederic A. Rasio

Intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) have masses of about 100 to 100,000 solar masses. They remain elusive. Observing IMBHs in present-day globular clusters (GCs) would validate a formation channel for seed black holes in the early…

A comprehensive study of the co-evolution of globular cluster systems (GCS) in galaxies requires the ability to model both the large scale dynamics (0.01 - 10 kpc) regulating their orbital evolution, and the small scale dynamics (sub-pc -…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-29 A. Leveque , M. Giersz , M. Arca-Sedda , A. Askar
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