AGN flares as counterparts to LIGO/Virgo mergers: No confident causal connection in spatial correlation analysis

Niccolò Veronesi, Sjoert van Velzen, Elena Maria Rossi

The primary formation channel for the stellar-mass Binary Black Holes which have been detected merging by the LIGO-Virgo- KAGRA (LVK) collaboration is yet to be discerned. One of t…