Accretion, Jets, and Recoil in a Merging Supermassive Black Hole Binary: A Prompt Electromagnetic Postmerger Counterpart for LISA

arXiv:2510.05883 · astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.HE, gr-qc · Submitted 2025-10-07 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.HE, gr-qc

Submitted: 2025-10-07

Updated: 2026-09-09

Comments: 12 pages, 6 figures

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Alignment — 8× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• AGN — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aperture — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Apparent Horizon — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode

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• Modeling the Black hole Merger of QSO 3C 186
• The recoiling black hole candidate 3C 186: spatially-resolved quasar feedback and further evidence of a blue-shifted broad line region
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• Recoiling black holes: prospects for detection and implications of spin alignment
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• Black hole kicks as new gravitational wave observables
• Tracking black hole kicks from gravitational wave observations

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