arXivResearchAug 11, 20261 min
Probability of gravitational-wave lensing by intermediate-mass black holes and globular clusters
Astroboat summary
Strongly lensed gravitational waves (GWs) are powerful probes of substructure in the lens. Intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) are postulated to be efficient lenses that may distort the lensed waveforms of currently detectable stellar-mass compact binaries, as hinted by GW231123.
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