Gravitational Waves and Intermediate-mass Black Hole Retention in Globular Clusters

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The recent discovery of gravitational waves has opened new horizons for physics.

• Current and upcoming missions, such as LIGO, VIRGO, KAGRA, and LISA, promise to shed light on black holes of every size from stellar mass (SBH) sizes up to supermassive black holes which reside in galactic nuclei.
• The intermediate mass black hole (IMBH) family has not been detected beyond any reasonable doubt neither directly nor indirectly.
• Recent analyses suggest observational evidence for the presence of IMBHs in the centers of two Galactic globular clusters.