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ultraluminous X-ray source

(ULX)
(X-ray source with luminosity between a star and an AGN)

An ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX) is a source of X-rays that is not as luminous as an active galactic nucleus (AGN) but is more luminous than any established stellar process. It is not clear what they are. A theory is that they are intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs).


(X-ray,black holes)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraluminous_X-ray_source
https://sites.utu.fi/hea/research/ultra-luminous-x-ray-sources/
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023NewAR..9601672K/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022A%26A...659A.188B/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022MNRAS.509.1587W/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014MNRAS.439.3461P/abstract

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