Detection of IMBHs with ground-based gravitational wave observatories: A biography of a binary of black holes, from birth to death

Pau Amaro-Seoane, Lucia Santamaria

Even though the existence of intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs, black holes with masses ranging between $10^{2-4}{M}_{\odot }$) has not yet been corroborated observationally, the…