Investigating Black Hole Kicks
It has been known for some time that neutron stars receive kicks (so-called natal kicks) when they are formed in core-collapse supernovae. Whether black holes receive these kicks too is still a matter of debate. We study Galactic low-mass X-ray binaries containing a black hole as the accreting object and look at their position within the Galaxy: some systems are almost coplanar, while others are f
