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Can black holes even collide? I guess their horizons can merge somehow... Probably a spectacular show.

• ryandamm 1y ago
  That’s precisely what LIGO measures, the gravitational waves from black hole mergers (or neutron star mergers, etc).
  • bookofjoe 1y ago
    >Cosmic Heavyweights Collide – LIGO Detects Largest, Fastest-Spinning Black Holes Yet https://scitechdaily.com/cosmic-heavyweights-collide-ligo-detects-largest-fastest-spinning-black-holes-yet/ https://scitechdaily.com/cosmic-heavyweights-collide-ligo-de...
• 20k 1y ago
  Disclaimer: This is my own work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doS85Mh78Vc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doS85Mh78Vc This is what they look like when they merge, its pretty darn cool
• boothby 1y ago
  I love to contemplate galactic-scale synchrotrons that accelerate supermassive charged black holes to collide at relativistic speeds. The thought never really goes anywhere, but I'm sure it'd be a spectacle to behold.
  • jfengel 1y ago
    It would be just about the only way we could get the data required to resolve the contradictions between the Standard Model and general relativity. The unification energy is simply stupendous.