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When Black Holes Collide
EricTheGreen writes "CNN.com reports on a pair of black holes in a mating dance that can only end badly for both of them. Fortunately they've still got several million years for the emotional rush to wear off and realize what a terrible mistake they're both making..."
Why did this remind me of that Family Guy episode?
"President Douchebag: I just got a call from my challenger.
Crowd: Boooo!
President Douchebag: Now now, Mr. Daterape ran a fine campaign."
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gravity sucks...
First blue rings around uranus, now we've got black holes colliding.. This place is really getting to disgusting for me.
Come on - tell me no one else thought of that?
"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." A. Carlson
Fortunately they've still got several million years for the emotional rush to wear off and realize what a terrible mistake they're both making...
Black holes hate it when you anthropomorphise them!
I dunno, but here on Earth, mergers of Supermassive companies usually end up in additional service charges.
- RG>
Hey pal, this isn't a pleasantforest, so don't waste my time with pleasantries!
Two supermassive black holes are spiraling closer and closer, leading to an inevitable merger.
But is it really inevitable, I ask myself? What would it take to pry them apart? Welcome to einstein's tractor pull!
Imaging the black holes 1 and 2 falling straight towards each other. (Trying to do this with them spinning makes my head hurt). You take a third supermassive BH, call it 3, and give it a large velocity relative to the other two. Send it thru the system at a slight angle.
As it hurtles by the hole 1, it drags it along -- has to come real close, but not too, noam sayin?
As 1 and 3 zip by 2, 1 gets slowed down some, but still has excape velocity from 2. See? No sweat. Now if DARPA will give me a grant, I'd hire a math major to solve orbiting BH case.
I'm cool like a fool in a swimming p-p-pfft-pool
They are black holes. How much worse can it get?
Gravity used to go the same speed as light, but then it pissed off Chuck Norris and has to go faster now to get away.