Search Publications

Supermassive Binary Black Holes and the Case of OJ 287

Ciprini, S.; Nowak, M. A.; Komossa, S. +12 more

Supermassive binary black holes (SMBBHs) are laboratories par excellence for relativistic effects, including precession effects in the Kerr metric and the emission of gravitational waves. Binaries form in the course of galaxy mergers, and are a key component in our understanding of galaxy evolution. Dedicated searches for SMBBHs in all stages of t…