Gravitational wave detection from binary black hole (BBH) inspirals has become routine thanks to the LIGO/Virgo interferometers. The nature of these back holes remains uncertain. We study here the spin distributions of LIGO/Virgo black holes from the first catalogue GWTC-1 and the first four published BBH events from run O3. We compute the Bayes evidence for several independent priors: flat, isotropic, spin-aligned and anti-aligned. We find strong evidence for low spins in all of the cases, and significant evidence for small isotropic spins versus any other distribution. When considered as a homogeneous population of black holes, these results gives support to the idea that LIGO/Virgo BBH are primordial
Context. After years of scientific progress, the origin of stellar binary black holes is still a gre...
According to the "no-hair" conjecture, a Kerr black hole (BH) is completely described by its mass an...
Binary black holes (BBHs) may form both through isolated binary evolution and through dynamical inte...
Gravitational wave detection from binary black hole (BBH) inspirals has become routine thanks to the...
Black holes are some of the most mysterious and fascinating objects that exist: with a gravitational...
We investigate how to use information on the effective spin parameter of binary black hole mergers f...
The black holes detected by current and future interferometers can have diverse origins. Their expec...
This dataset contains the results presented in "No evidence that the majority of black holes in bina...
The LIGO and Virgo Interferometers have so far provided 11 gravitational-wave (GW) observations of b...
The mass and spin properties of binary black holes (BBHs) inferred from their gravitational-wave sig...
The observation of gravitational-wave signals from merging black hole binaries enables direct measur...
Primordial black holes in the mass range of ground-based gravitational-wave detectors can comprise a...
Gravitational wave (GW) measurements of physical effects such as spin-induced quadrupole moments can...
Context. The growing set of gravitational-wave sources is being used to measure the properties of th...
The Advanced LIGO and Virgo detectors have now observed approximately 50 black hole binary mergers, ...
Context. After years of scientific progress, the origin of stellar binary black holes is still a gre...
According to the "no-hair" conjecture, a Kerr black hole (BH) is completely described by its mass an...
Binary black holes (BBHs) may form both through isolated binary evolution and through dynamical inte...
Gravitational wave detection from binary black hole (BBH) inspirals has become routine thanks to the...
Black holes are some of the most mysterious and fascinating objects that exist: with a gravitational...
We investigate how to use information on the effective spin parameter of binary black hole mergers f...
The black holes detected by current and future interferometers can have diverse origins. Their expec...
This dataset contains the results presented in "No evidence that the majority of black holes in bina...
The LIGO and Virgo Interferometers have so far provided 11 gravitational-wave (GW) observations of b...
The mass and spin properties of binary black holes (BBHs) inferred from their gravitational-wave sig...
The observation of gravitational-wave signals from merging black hole binaries enables direct measur...
Primordial black holes in the mass range of ground-based gravitational-wave detectors can comprise a...
Gravitational wave (GW) measurements of physical effects such as spin-induced quadrupole moments can...
Context. The growing set of gravitational-wave sources is being used to measure the properties of th...
The Advanced LIGO and Virgo detectors have now observed approximately 50 black hole binary mergers, ...
Context. After years of scientific progress, the origin of stellar binary black holes is still a gre...
According to the "no-hair" conjecture, a Kerr black hole (BH) is completely described by its mass an...
Binary black holes (BBHs) may form both through isolated binary evolution and through dynamical inte...