To Stars or to gas, that is the question.
Whether ’tis nobler in the hardening to suffer
The slings and arrows of passing stars,
Or to dissipate against a sea of gas
And by disk end them. To inspiral — to merge,
No more; and by LISA to say we end
The models and the thousand PE samples
That gravity is heir to.

Alice Spadaro, Riccardo Buscicchio, David Izquierdo-Villalba, Davide Gerosa, Antoine Klein, Geraint Pratten.
arXiv:2409.13011 [astro-ph.HE].