Gas column density (code units) in the equatorial plane of the binary for three different initial separations (from top to bottom) and at three different evolutionary stages (left to right). The frames are centered on the newly formed BH (black circle) and the dashed circles in the left panels show the initial size of the pre-SN star. The cyan circle shows the companion BH. Times are measured in units of t_*. All simulations have ζ = 0.4 but differ on the initial separation of the binary: d_* = 2 (top panel), d_* = 3 (middle panel), and d_* = 5 (bottom panel). In the last frame of the bottom panel, the resulting large binary separation places the companion outside of the frame.