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A New Way to Detect Massive Black Holes in Galaxies: The Stellar Remnants of Tidal Disruption
We point out that the tidal disruption of a giant may leave a luminous (1035-1039 ergs s-1), hot (10-100 eV) stellar core. The "supersoft" source detected by Chandra at the center of M31 may be such a core; whether or not it is, the observations have shown that such a …