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Could we detect a globular cluster consisting entirely of black holes?
A paper recently came out in Nature simulating the evolution of the $\sim10^4M_{\odot}$ globular cluster Palomar 4 (Gieles et al. 2021, arXiv link). The authors argue that in ~1 billion years, a ...
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How many stars are there in a Globular Cluster of 10^5 solar masses?
I was wondering whether there is an easy way to approximate the number of stars in a Globular Cluster (GC) with 10^5 solar masses.
Can one, for instance just assume the GC is made of sun-like stars ...
