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. 2020 Apr;580(7805):E11-E15.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2216-x. Epub 2020 Apr 29.

On the signature of a 70-solar-mass black hole in LB-1

Michael Abdul-Masih  1 , Gareth Banyard  1 , Julia Bodensteiner  1 , Emma Bordier  1 , Dominic M Bowman  1 , Karan Dsilva  1 , Matthias Fabry  1 , Calum Hawcroft  1 , Laurent Mahy  1 , Pablo Marchant  1 , Gert Raskin  1 , Maddalena Reggiani  1 , Tomer Shenar  1 , Andrew Tkachenko  1 , Hans Van Winckel  1 , Lore Vermeylen  2 , Hugues Sana  3
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On the signature of a 70-solar-mass black hole in LB-1

Michael Abdul-Masih et al. Nature. 2020 Apr.
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  • A wide star-black-hole binary system from radial-velocity measurements.
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