Research Article

Are Nuclear Star Clusters the Precursors of Massive Black Holes?

Figure 5

The mass of the BH mass versus the NC mass. We plot the objects as listed in the text. The two full lines indicate an NC mass of and a mass ratio of 100. These lines separate NC-dominated galaxy nuclei (lower left of both lines) from BH-dominated galaxy nuclei (upper left of both lines) and a transition region (to the right of both lines).
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