Session 2 · Europe
Aleksandra Olejak
Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching
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What to expect
The black holes detected by gravitational-wave observatories begin their story as massive stars. This talk preview traces how binary interaction, mass transfer and stellar evolution shape merging black-hole populations, and how the growing gravitational-wave catalogue can test competing formation scenarios.
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About Aleksandra Olejak
Aleksandra Olejak is a postdoctoral researcher in Stellar Astrophysics at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics. Her work focuses on massive-star evolution in binary systems, the formation of binary black-hole mergers and the astrophysical origin of gravitational-wave signals.