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most citedMonitoring stellar orbits around the Massive Black Hole in the Galactic Center

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astro-ph.GA2017★ 294 cited

Strongly baryon-dominated disk galaxies at the peak of galaxy formation ten billion years ago

R. Genzel, N. M. Förster Schreiber, H. Übler +28

In cold dark matter cosmology, the baryonic components of galaxies are thought to be mixed with and embedded in non-baryonic and non-relativistic dark matter, which dominates the t…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 10 cited

EMRIs and the relativistic loss-cone: The curious case of the fortunate coincidence

Tal Alexander

Extreme mass ratio inspiral (EMRI) events are vulnerable to perturbations by the stellar background, which can abort them prematurely by deflecting EMRI orbits to plunging ones tha…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 163 cited

Stellar Dynamics and Stellar Phenomena Near A Massive Black Hole

Tal Alexander

Most galactic nuclei harbor a massive black hole (MBH), whose birth and evolution are closely linked to those of its host galaxy. The unique conditions near the MBH: high velocity…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 23 cited

A universal minimal mass scale for present-day central black holes

Tal Alexander, Ben Bar-Or

Intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) of mass solar masses, , are the long-sought missing link between stellar black holes, born of…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 97 cited

Steady state relativistic stellar dynamics around a massive black hole

Ben Bar-Or, Tal Alexander

A massive black hole (MBH) consumes stars whose orbits evolve into the small phase-space volume of unstable orbits, the "loss-cone", which take them directly into the MBH, or close…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 1 cited

Relativistic Stellar Dynamics Around a Massive Black Hole in Steady State

Tal Alexander

I briefly review advances in the understanding and modeling of relativistic stellar dynamics around massive black holes (MBHs) in galactic nuclei, following the inclusion of cohere…