Pith Number

pith:HTBBBHTL

pith:2014:HTBBBHTLCWS62SYLZSYACXV3FD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Detecting floating black holes as they traverse the gas disk of the Milky Way

Abraham Loeb, Xiawei Wang

arxiv:1402.5975 v3 · 2014-02-24 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HTBBBHTLCWS62SYLZSYACXV3FD}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:44:28.796131Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3cc2109e6b15a5ed4b0bccb0015ebb28e2dc64966756c4b7984aaad2a00ebc16

Aliases

arxiv: 1402.5975 · arxiv_version: 1402.5975v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1402.5975 · pith_short_12: HTBBBHTLCWS6 · pith_short_16: HTBBBHTLCWS62SYL · pith_short_8: HTBBBHTL

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/HTBBBHTLCWS62SYLZSYACXV3FD \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 3cc2109e6b15a5ed4b0bccb0015ebb28e2dc64966756c4b7984aaad2a00ebc16

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3daa401cefc551d23869ba4109993347c44e7050f3b17a8da7f2439ab00df93a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2014-02-24T21:01:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1eda0619f3ee3adb95b1c2099db8be0762ceecb6957acd4df7a42e8f96ded30e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1402.5975",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}