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Signatures of a Subpopulation of Hierarchical Mergers in the GWTC-4 Gravitational-Wave Dataset
Author(s): Cailin Plunkett, Salvatore Vitale, Thomas Callister, and Michael Zevin (Society of Physicists Interested in Non-Aligned Spins (SPINS))
Different analyses of gravitational-wave observations are converging on evidence for a distinct population of massive black hole binaries produced through repeated mergers. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 021404] Published Mon Jul 06, 2026