Across the Universe: GW231123 as a magnified and diffracted black hole merger

Srashti Goyal, Hector Villarrubia-Rojo, Miguel Zumalacarregui

GW231123 appears as the most massive binary black hole (BBH) ever observed by the LIGO interferometers with total mass $190-265M_{\odot }$. A high observed mass can be explained by t…