A new route towards merging massive black holes

With recent advances in gravitational-wave astronomy, the direct detection of gravitational waves from the merger of two stellar-mass compact objects has become a realistic prospect. Evolutionary scenarios towards mergers of various double compact objects generally invoke so-called common-envelope e...

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Main Authors: Marchant, P, Langer, N, Podsiadlowski, P, Tauris, T, Moriya, T
Format: Journal article
Published: EDP Sciences 2016