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No need for a central object.  They create their own collective gravitation.

Jonathan Ratty on 15 May 2006 at 23:32 +0000 wrote:
Do they need an 'object' to orbit around (the black hole?), or can they find an orbital centre where the various forces on them balance each other out?

Jonathan