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Black Holes at high and low metallicity
Jorick S. Vink, Gautham N. Sabhahit, Ethan R. J. Winch
At the end of their lives the most massive stars collapse into black holes (BHs). The detection of an 85 BH from GW 190521 appeared to challenge the upper-mass limit im…
Predicting the Heaviest Black Holes below the Pair Instability Gap
Ethan R. J. Winch, Jorick S. Vink, Erin R. Higgins +1
Traditionally, the pair instability (PI) mass gap is located between 50\,and 130\,, with stellar mass black holes (BHs) expected to "pile up" towards the lower PI edge.…
Maximum Black Hole mass across Cosmic Time
Jorick S. Vink, Erin R. Higgins, Andreas A. C. Sander +1
At the end of its life, a very massive star is expected to collapse into a black hole. The recent detection of an 85 Msun black hole from the gravitational wave event GW 190521 app…