Both Pirouettes and Do-si-Dos: Why is there a bias in the black hole ballet? – astrobites

Supermassive black holes are found at the center of galaxies, chomping on gas and dust that gets pulled into their strong gravitational field. They are surrounded by a hot, swirling accretion disk of material.

Both Pirouettes and Do-si-Dos: Why is there a bias in the black hole ballet?

In this Astrobite, we look at black hole mergers in the accretion disks around supermassive black holes, because you can simply never have too many black holes!