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What Happens When Supermassive Black Holes Merge?
Wednesday, October 10, 2012 15:12
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This is a frame from a simulation of the merger of two black holes and the resulting emission of gravitational radiation (colored fields, which represent a component of the curvature of space-time). The yellow areas near the black holes do not correspond to physical structures but generally indicate where the strong non-linear gravitational-field interactions are in play.
Image credit: NASA/C. Henze
