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Using Gravity to Peer into the Most Violent Places in the Universe: Colliding Black Holes

Wednesday, September 19, 2012 9:41
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Simulation of colliding black holes

Simulation of colliding black holes

Nothing matches the destructive power of a black hole; a singularity of dense matter with a gravitational pull so strong that nothing, not even light can escape. What goes in, doesn’t come back out. And so you can imagine how difficult it would be to probe the region inside a black hole’s event horizon. And yet, there’s a catastrophic event that should give scientists a momentary glance into the maelstrom, to partly understand what’s going on “in there.” That event would be the collision between two black holes.

As you probably know, there’s a supermassive black hole lurking at the heart of every galaxy. As these galaxies merge, these black holes encounter one another too. Sometimes a black hole is violently kicked into deep space, and other times they merge together into an even more super-supermassive black hole. The collision happens out of sight, beneath the shared event horizon. So, there’s no way to see what’s going on … and live to tell about it.
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