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Thanks, that's helpful. It's hard to get my head around the idea that an event so massive can be over so "quickly", without any residual longer-lasting effects.
by tizzdogg 11y ago
Thanks, that's helpful. It's hard to get my head around the idea that an event so massive can be over so "quickly", without any residual longer-lasting effects.
- lutorm 11y agoYou're left with a big-ass black hole...
- valarauca1 11y ago>without any residual longer-lasting effects A massive ripple in the very fabric of reality?
- tizzdogg 11y agoWell it sounds like a massive ripple in the fabric of reality which passes by us in a fraction of a second, never to be seen again. So from my non-physicist point of view, no it doesnt seem like a very long lasting effect, relative to us at least. Thanks for the snark though.
- lmm 11y agoThere's a theorem that black holes have "no hair": two black holes of the same mass, charge and angular momentum are indistinguishable. So the merge must happen instantaneously: if the combined black hole were "sloshing" afterwards that would violate that theorem.
- spacehome 11y agoWhether or not black holes have "no hair" is currently an unsolved problem. Hawking, for instance, believes that the Hawking Radiation from a black hole encodes the information that went into creating the hole. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_information_paradox#Hawking_radiation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_information_paradox...