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LMC X-3 - Wikipedia

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LMC X-3 is a high-mass X-ray binary (HMXB) system located in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way approximately 165,000 light-years (50.5 kiloparsecs) away.[^4] The system consists of a stellar-mass black hole accreting material from a B-type main-sequence companion star, producing intense X-ray emission via a hot accretion disk. LMC X-3 is one of the most studied extragalactic black hole binaries due to its brightness and variability.[^5]¹²

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1. Torpin, Trevor J.; Boyd, Patricia T.; Smale, Alan P.; Valencic, Lynne A. (2017-10-27). “Unusual Black Hole Binary LMC X-3: A Transient High-Mass X-Ray Binary That Is Almost Always On?”. The Astrophysical Journal. 849 (1): 32. Bibcode:2017ApJ…849…32T. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aa8f96. ISSN 0004-637X. ↩

2. Nowak, M. A.; Wilms, J.; Heindl, W. A.; Pottschmidt, K.; Dove, J. B.; Begelman, M. C. (2000-08-08), “A good long look at the black hole candidates LMC X-1 and LMC X-3”, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 320 (3): 316–326, arXiv:astro-ph/0005487, doi:10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.03984.x ↩

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