Program: GN-2022B-Q-212

When dwarf galaxies are tidally stripped, their dense nuclei and central black holes often remain in orbit around their host galaxies. There have been discoveries of a population of massive black holes in stripped nuclei with masses above 10^7 Msol in the Virgo and Fornax clusters, but so far the expected population of black holes have not been found in the more abundant stripped nuclei expected at lower masses. M31 has the Local Group's 7 most massive globular clusters between 2.5 and 6 million solar masses, and thus is the perfect place to hunt for the intermediate mass black holes expected in lower mass stripped nuclei. Recently, an evidence for a 9.1x10^4 Msol black hole has been found in M31's most massive cluster using Gemini/NIFS data, we seek to expand the search to three additional massive clusters for which Gemini/ NIFS can obtain useful data. This data represents a key step in taking census of the massive black holes in the local Universe.