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Entire solar masses being lost to gravitational waves, like the voltage drop across a resistor, is a humbling prospect.
by maxbond 1y ago
Entire solar masses being lost to gravitational waves, like the voltage drop across a resistor, is a humbling prospect.
- bot403 1y agoI'll underscore your awe by reminding you those solar masses disappeared in only 1 tenth of a second - the length of the gravitational wave signal.
- ikari_pl 1y agobut that's the time that passed here... it sounds like a mind-warpingly different perspective might have been seen there
- IAmBroom 1y agoI think you have it backwards. From the POV of someone near the Event Horizon, other space speeds up. Galaxies begin to spin at noticeable speeds.... But the black holes would appear to be approaching each other at "normal" speeds.
- Bluestein 1y agoDang