Binary stars

Polluting the Pair-instability Mass Gap for Binary Black Holes through Super-Eddington Accretion in Isolated Binaries

The theory for single stellar evolution predicts a gap in the mass distribution of black holes (BHs) between approximately 45 and 130 …

L. A. C. van Son, S. E. De Mink, F. S. Broekgaarden, M. Renzo, S. Justham, E. Laplace, J. Morán-Fraile, David Hendriks, R. Farmer