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Stability of mass transfer from massive giants: double black hole binary formation and ultraluminous X-ray sources

Stability of mass transfer from massive giants: double black hole binary formation and ultraluminous X-ray sources

The mass transfer in binaries with massive donors and compact companions, when the donors rapidly evolve after their main sequence, is one of the dominant formation channels of merging double stellar-mass black hole binaries.This mass transfer was previously postulated to be unstable and was expected to lead to a common …