A new method to calculate the number of black holes (IMAGE)

Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati

A new method to calculate the number of black holes

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Alex Sicilia, first author of the study, comments: “The innovative character of this work is in the coupling of a detailed model of stellar and binary evolution with advanced recipes for star formation and metal enrichment in individual galaxies. This is one of the first, and one of the most robust, ab initio computation of the stellar black hole mass function across cosmic history.”

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