Re:An intermediate-mass black hole candidate in the Milky Way
by scatters on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @03:20PM
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If stellar mass black holes are merging to form IMBHs, wouldn't we expect to detect such collision events frequently? Or have we not yet collected enough gravitational wave data to put bounds on those events?
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Re:An intermediate-mass black hole candidate in the Milky Way
by antognini on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @04:15PM
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Yes, globular clusters are expected to be prime locations for BH-BH mergers and gravitational wave events. The few GW detections we now have put some bounds on the BH-BH merger rate, but as far as I know, those bounds are consistent with the rates needed for IMBH formation.