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Is GW231123 a hierarchical merger?
Lachlan Passenger, Sharan Banagiri, Eric Thrane +4
The binary black hole merger GW231123 is both the most massive gravitational-wave event observed and has the highest component spins measured to date. The dimensionless spins of th…
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Gravitational-wave kicks impact spins of black holes from hierarchical mergers
Angela Borchers, Claire S. Ye, Maya Fishbach
One proposed black hole formation channel involves hierarchical mergers, where black holes form through repeated binary mergers. Previous studies have shown that such black holes f…