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| ▲ | 20k 6 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Disclaimer: This is my own work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doS85Mh78Vc This is what they look like when they merge, its pretty darn cool |
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| ▲ | ryandamm 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| That’s precisely what LIGO measures, the gravitational waves from black hole mergers (or neutron star mergers, etc). |
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| ▲ | boothby 6 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| 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. |
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| ▲ | jfengel 5 days ago | parent [-] | | 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. |
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