Black hole spin-mass correlation and accretion disks at birth stage of dense star clusters

astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.HE

Submitted: 2026-10-13

Updated: 2026-10-13

Comments: Talk given at the XV International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics, August 2026, Crete, Greece

Code: https://github.com/PrincetonUniversity/athena

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

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