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Ep. 680: Rogue Black Holes

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The Future of Dark Matter

We're seeking gravitational waves from black hole black hole mergers. And it's now starting to look like there are many systems out there that have multiple massive objects in binary systems. All they need to do is find a third friend to send somebody offline. Now if instead of having two that are merging, you have a third one come in and there's lots of multi star systems out there, that's now unstable. And so something's going to get thrown away and can escape. It's not necessarily just going to happen with stellar mass black holes. Do we want to go there? Do we want the paper?

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