General relativistic models of star clusters with large redshifts are investigated to see whether such objects can be stable and long-lived based on evaporation and collision timescales and stability criteria. We find that physically reasonable models of massive clusters of stellar remnants can exist with masses $\geq 10^6 M_{\odot}$, which could simulate black holes at the center of galaxies with large $M/L$ ratios and gas motions of order $\geq 10^3 km/s$. It follows that the evidence is not conclusive for massive dark objects at the center of galaxies being black holes
We use N-body simulations as well as analytical techniques to study the long-term dynamical evolutio...
The configuration of a central massive object interacting gravitationally with much lighter objects ...
Context. The formation of supermassive black holes at high redshift still remains a puzzle to astron...
A cluster of compact objects (neutron stars and/or black holes) may mimic the presence of a super-ma...
In this paper we report results of collisional N-body simulations of the dynamical evolution of equa...
The case for a massive black hole in the center of the Galaxy is reassessed using improved modeling ...
Abstract It is now well-established that a dark, compact object, very likely a massive black hole (M...
Evidence has been accumulating for several decades that many galaxies harbor central mass concentrat...
Our current understanding of the stellar initial mass function and of massive star evolution would s...
If the stellar population of the bulge contains black holes formed in the Ðnal core collapse of ordi...
There are many observational evidences for the existence of massive compact condensations in the ran...
The central regions of galaxies show the presence of massive black holes and/or dense stellar system...
If the stellar population of the bulge contains black holes formed in the final core collapse of ord...
We present the results of realistic N-body modelling of massive star clusters in the Magellanic Clou...
A young star cluster is a less contrived explanation than a massive black hole for many of the featu...
We use N-body simulations as well as analytical techniques to study the long-term dynamical evolutio...
The configuration of a central massive object interacting gravitationally with much lighter objects ...
Context. The formation of supermassive black holes at high redshift still remains a puzzle to astron...
A cluster of compact objects (neutron stars and/or black holes) may mimic the presence of a super-ma...
In this paper we report results of collisional N-body simulations of the dynamical evolution of equa...
The case for a massive black hole in the center of the Galaxy is reassessed using improved modeling ...
Abstract It is now well-established that a dark, compact object, very likely a massive black hole (M...
Evidence has been accumulating for several decades that many galaxies harbor central mass concentrat...
Our current understanding of the stellar initial mass function and of massive star evolution would s...
If the stellar population of the bulge contains black holes formed in the Ðnal core collapse of ordi...
There are many observational evidences for the existence of massive compact condensations in the ran...
The central regions of galaxies show the presence of massive black holes and/or dense stellar system...
If the stellar population of the bulge contains black holes formed in the final core collapse of ord...
We present the results of realistic N-body modelling of massive star clusters in the Magellanic Clou...
A young star cluster is a less contrived explanation than a massive black hole for many of the featu...
We use N-body simulations as well as analytical techniques to study the long-term dynamical evolutio...
The configuration of a central massive object interacting gravitationally with much lighter objects ...
Context. The formation of supermassive black holes at high redshift still remains a puzzle to astron...