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by kobeya 3186 days ago
Those are solar mass.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermediate-mass_black_hole

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I mean, where did you get this 1000x figure as what "we're finding a lot of"?
There's examples in the article I linked to. (FWIW finding any at all, let alone the half dozen or so found in the last few years is "a lot" given the minuscule priors involved.)
I'm sorry I still don't see it. Your linked article says at the very top "There is as yet no unambiguous detection of an IMBH". Concerning gravitational waves, reference [7] says "We show that space based detectors such as the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna are likely to detect several of these sources". Reference [8] says "gravitational-wave observations could be used to accurately measure masses of black holes in merging binaries and probe the existence of intermediate-mass black holes". So no discovery yet, just theoretical work on what the signal would look like.