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Fig. 11.

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Binary evolutionary tracks for two stars with a rotational mixing efficiency fm = 0.66 and with initial masses M1, i = 36 M and M2, i = 15 M, and an initial period of 1.55 days. The best fitting positions on the track are indicated with black open circles and correspond to an age of 17 kyr. The 36 M star collapses into a BH at an age of 7.8 Myr, indicated also on the 15 M track with a blue triangle. After that, the 15 M star evolves further until it starts transferring mass to the BH (red square). Eventually, the 15 M star will also collapse into a BH (the track stops at carbon depletion).

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