Results from the Intermediate-Mass Black Hole Search in Advanced LIGO

The Advanced LIGO detectors can survey the population of intermediate-mass black hole mergers further than any known gravitational wave source. This talk highlights our findings from the search for the intermediate-mass black holes during the first and second observing runs of Advanced LIGO detectors (2015-2017). We discuss our primary results and their astrophysical implications. These results also mark the first direct application of numerical relativity waveforms for making rate measurements in real Advanced era data.