Abstract:
The field of gravitational-wave astronomy provides us with a wealth of
information about the most extreme objects in the Universe. Since
2015, there have been over 90 detections of merging black holes and
neutron stars. With the growing number of gravitational wave events,
we can study the overall population of events, allowing us to probe
stellar evolution and formation mechanisms of these compact
binaries. In this talk, I describe the emerging picture of the
formation of binary black hole systems using observations from
LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA. I will also present some insights into the
population of binary neutron stars, and the implications for radio and
gravitational-wave astronomy.
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