Recoiling black holes: prospects for detection and implications of spin alignment
Supermassive black hole (BH) mergers produce powerful gravitational wave emission. Asymmetry in this emission imparts a recoil kick to the merged BH, which can eject the BH from its host galaxy altogether. Recoiling BHs could be observed as offset active galactic nuclei (AGN). Several candidates hav...
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Oxford University Press
2017
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/108467 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5653-0786 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8593-7692 |