Fig. 2.

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Trajectories of the three stellar-mass BHs during a three-body encounter around the SMBH. We highlight the different scale of the z axis with respect to the x–y coordinates, used in order to better visualise the trajectories. The interaction is resonant, because there are multiple episodes of democratic interactions and excursions.
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