Formation of Merging Black Hole Binaries Inside Massive AGN Stars

arXiv:2609.16290 · astro-ph.HE, astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.SR, gr-qc · Submitted 2026-09-14 · Read on arXiv

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

Submitted: 2026-09-14

Updated: 2026-09-14

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Terminology

• AGN — 11× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Signatures of Compact Object Mergers Inside Stars in AGN Disks
• Dynamical friction in stratified stellar envelopes
• Dynamical formation of high-eccentricity compact binaries through BH--BH*/TZO collisions
• GWTC-5.0: Population Properties of Merging Compact Binaries
• Formation of black hole stars via star--black hole collisions
• AthenaK: A Performance-Portable Version of the Athena++ AMR Framework
• From Inspiral to Expansion: The Wake-Driven Torque on Binary Black Holes in Gaseous Medium

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