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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Main Authors: Blecha, Laura, Sijacki, Debora, Kelley, Luke Zoltan, Torrey, Paul, Vogelsberger, Mark, Nelson, Dylan, Springel, Volker, Snyder, Gregory, Hernquist, Lars, Torrey, Paul A.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Oxford University Press 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/108467
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5653-0786
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8593-7692