Pith Number

pith:Q5VRPNHB

pith:2026:Q5VRPNHBO2WSDPZR3KI3PP6HYJ

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Rapid intermediate-mass black hole formation via runaway mergers of black holes

Long Wang, Yining Sun

arxiv:2606.08961 v1 · 2026-06-08 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Q5VRPNHBO2WSDPZR3KI3PP6HYJ}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-06-09T02:07:50.432119Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

876b17b4e176ad21bf31da91b7bfc7c250e8a123464cac5bb00553996e839745

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.08961 · arxiv_version: 2606.08961v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.08961 · pith_short_12: Q5VRPNHBO2WS · pith_short_16: Q5VRPNHBO2WSDPZR · pith_short_8: Q5VRPNHB

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/Q5VRPNHBO2WSDPZR3KI3PP6HYJ \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 876b17b4e176ad21bf31da91b7bfc7c250e8a123464cac5bb00553996e839745

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3b321e582bea0d449637f5b1fa814217711e5ed8586fbcf97d04f8e9cf10233a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-08T03:00:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ac653e05f3af76024ccafc9d85237ddca59474a13bedb22f64fce6b773a01795"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.08961",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}