Evolutionary roads leading to low effective spins, high black hole masses, and O1/O2 rates for LIGO/Virgo binary black holes
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DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201936528
Abstract: All ten LIGO/Virgo binary black hole (BH-BH) coalescences reported following the O1/O2 runs have near-zero effective spins. There are only three potential explanations for this. If the BH spin magnitudes are large, then: (i) either… read more here.
Keywords: black hole; ligo virgo; transport; hole ... See more keywords