Saturday, January 21, 2012

[onyiuljo] Two black holes coalescing

Two black holes spin around each other and coalesce into one.

In the absence of any surrounding matter (accretion disks, jets), this is the most boring thing to watch in electromagnetic radiation: black on black.

But if you could see the fabric of spacetime itself (computer simulation), it should be fascinating.  Imagine both black holes are rotating, but their axes not parallel.  The frame dragging effects probably interfere with each other.

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