No Evidence for a Dip in the Binary Black Hole Mass Spectrum
Christian Adamcewicz et al 2024 ApJ 975 253 Analysis of the third gravitational-wave transient catalog suggests that the purported 10–12-solar-mass gap in the masses of observed black holes does not…
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