Intermediate-mass BH: how to form them?
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...and
how to observe them?
Optical counterparts, lightcurves,
accretion disk lines
ß primordial (see eg Rees)
feeding -- from a molecular
cloud? (Grindlay)
-- by capturing a companion?
ß in globular clusters from SN
explosion of very massive stars?
(from merging of many smaller BH?)
NO. Ineffective because of slingshot
effect
ß in super star clusters ( = young
globular clusters?)
from merging of many stars à star of 500 Msun
à sinks to
the cluster centre à SN à IMBH?
(eg, Ebisuzaki et al 2001)