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The gravitational wave event GW231123, with component black hole masses lying within or above the pair-instability mass gap, poses a significant challenge to current stellar evolution models. In this work, we describe how we investigated…

GW231123 is the most massive binary black hole (BBH) merger detected to date by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration. With at least one black hole (BH) in the upper-mass gap and both BHs exhibiting high spins ($\chi_{1,2} \gtrsim 0.8$), this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-16 Lavinia Paiella , Cristiano Ugolini , Mario Spera , Marica Branchesi , Manuel Arca Sedda

Binary black holes (BBHs) forming in the accretion disks of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) represent a promising channel for gravitational-wave production. BBHs are often assumed to form at migration traps, i.e. radial locations where the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-08 Maria Paola Vaccaro , Yannick Seif , Michela Mapelli

We explore the formation process of a black hole (BH) through the pair-instability collapse of a rotating Population III very massive star in axisymmetric numerical relativity. As the initial condition, we employ a progenitor star which is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-23 Haruki Uchida , Masaru Shibata , Koh Takahashi , Takashi Yoshida

We investigate a hierarchical structure formation scenario describing the evolution of a Super Massive Black Holes (SMBHs) population. The seeds of the local SMBHs are assumed to be 'pregalactic' black holes, remnants of the first POPIII…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-29 M. Volonteri , F. Haardt , P. Madau , A. Sesana

The current interpretation of LIGO--Virgo--KAGRA data suggests that the primary mass function of merging binary black holes (BBHs) at redshift $z\lesssim 1$ contains multiple structures, while spins are relatively low. Theoretical models of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-23 Manuel Arca Sedda , Michela Mapelli , Matthew Benacquista , Mario Spera

Hydrodynamic studies of stellar-mass compact objects (COs) in a common envelope (CE)have shown that the accretion rate onto the CO is a few orders of magnitude below the Bondi-Hoyle-Lyttleton (BHL) estimate. This is several orders of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-03 Enrique Moreno Méndez , Fabio De Colle , Diego López Cámara , Alejandro Vigna-Gómez

We study the dynamical evolution of the stellar mass binary black holes (BBHs) in a galactic nucleus that contains a massive black hole (MBH). For a comprehensive study of their merging events, we consider simultaneously the non-resonant…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-17 Fupeng Zhang , Lijing Shao , Weishan Zhu

Gravitational-wave detectors are unveiling a population of binary black hole (BBH) mergers out to redshifts $z \approx 1$, and are starting to constrain how the BBH population evolves with redshift. We present predictions for the redshift…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-05 Claire S. Ye , Maya Fishbach

In this paper, we explore the mechanisms that regulate the formation and evolution of stellar black hole binaries (BHBs) around supermassive black holes (SMBHs). We show that dynamical interactions can efficiently drive "in-situ" BHB…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-17 Manuel Arca Sedda

We propose a method for confirmation of the existence of Population III (Pop III) stars with massive black hole binaries as GW150914 in gravitational wave (GW) observation. When we get enough number of events, we want to determine which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-26 Akinobu Miyamoto , Tomoya Kinugawa , Takashi Nakamura , Nobuyuki Kanda

The LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA (LVK) collaboration has announced 90 coalescing binary black holes (BBHs) with $p_{\rm astro} > 50\%$ to date, however, the origin of their formation channels is still an open scientific question. Given various…

We explore a newly proposed channel to create binary black holes of stellar origin. This scenario applies to massive, tight binaries where mixing induced by rotation and tides transports the products of hydrogen burning throughout the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-07 Ilya Mandel , Selma E. de Mink

Most galaxies have central massive black holes (BH), and merge with others during their evolution, as strongly suggested by recent observations. Consequently a black hole binary (BHB) emerges. Considering the evolution of the binary when it…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Christian Zier , Peter L. Biermann

The existence of massive stellar black hole binaries (MBHBs), with primary black hole (BH) masses $\ge 31 \, M_\odot$, was proven by the detection of the gravitational wave (GW) event GW150914 during the first LIGO/Virgo observing run (O1),…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-14 L. Graziani , R. Schneider , S. Marassi , W. Del Pozzo , M. Mapelli , N. Giacobbo

We present predictions for cosmic evolution of populations of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) forming from Population III.1 seeds, i.e., early, metal-free dark matter minihalos forming far from other sources, parameterized by isolation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-16 Jasbir Singh , Pierluigi Monaco , Jonathan C. Tan

We have performed N-body simulations of globular clusters (GCs) in order to estimate a detection rate of mergers of Binary stellar-mass Black Holes (BBHs) by means of gravitational wave (GW) observatories. For our estimate, we have only…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 Ataru Tanikawa

The dynamical formation of stellar-mass black hole-black hole binaries has long been a promising source of gravitational waves for the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). Mass segregation, gravitational focusing, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-30 Ryan M. O'Leary , Yohai Meiron , Bence Kocsis

Using cosmological radiation-hydrodynamical simulations, we study the effect of accreting supermassive black holes (SMBHs) on nearby dark-matter (DM) haloes in the very early universe. We find that an SMBH with a spectral energy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-15 Ethan M. Fisk , Madeline A. Marshall , Phoebe R. Upton Sanderbeck , Jarrett L. Johnson

We present direct N-body simulations, carried out with Nbody6++GPU, of young and compact low metallicity star clusters with $1.1\times 10^5$ stars, a velocity dispersion of $\sim$ 10 $\mathrm{km\,s^{-1}}$, a half mass radius $R_h=0.6$ pc,…

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