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Fig. 13.
Schematics of IMBH growth via three-body-driven IMBH–BH mergers. We assume that the three-body phase lasts for a duration of tmer, after which the third BH is ejected and the IMBH–BH binary either remains stable or undergoes an IMRI phase and ultimately merges, possibly kicking out the IMBH remnant owing to GW recoil.
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