GW231123: A Binary Black Hole Merger with Total Mass 190–265 M⊙
A. G. Abac et al 2025 ApJL 993 L25 The LIGO collaboration has discovered a remarkable pair of merging black holes; with estimated masses of 137 and 101 solar masses, these black holes appear to lie…
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