Bahcall–Wolf cusp refers to a particular distribution of stars around a massive black hole at the center of a galaxy or globular cluster. If the nucleus...

stars—should have a steeply-rising density near the black hole, a so-called Bahcall–Wolf cusp. Instead, it was discovered in 2009 that the density of the old stars...

including core collapse, energy equipartition, and formation of a Bahcall-Wolf cusp around a supermassive black hole. Relaxation oscillator Time constant...