An X-ray-quiet black hole born with a negligible kick in a massive binary within the Large Magellanic Cloud - Nature.com

An inactive black hole has been found in the Large Magellanic Cloud, bound into a binary star system. Having experienced a negligible ‘kick’ during formation, the existence of this black hole has strong implications for black hole-–black hole mergers.

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration et al. GWTC-3: compact binary coalescences observed by LIGO and Virgo during the second part of the third observing run. Preprint at https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.0… [+10184 chars]

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