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You Repeatedly Measure the Radial Velocity of What Seems to Be

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You repeatedly measure the radial velocity of what seems to be a single main-sequence star like the Sun but find that it in fact is in a tight orbit around another object that remains unseen.From measurement of the velocity and orbital period, you calculate that the unseen object has a mass 20 times that of the Sun-like star.Why might this object be a black hole?


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