Massive Black Hole Binary Evolution

Coalescence of binary supermassive black holes (SBHs) would constitute the strongest sources of gravitational waves to be observed by LISA. While the formation of binary SBHs during galaxy mergers is almost inevitable, coalescence requires that the separation between binary components first drop by...

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Main Authors: Merritt David, Milosavljević Miloš
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2005-11-01
Series:Living Reviews in Relativity
Online Access:http://www.livingreviews.org/lrr-2005-8