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360 points Eduard | 1 comments | 14 Jul 25 20:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.259s | source

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I've always thought the event horizon for a black hole has to be spherical.

But my physics intuition tells me that as two of them merge, the resulting BH should have a "peanut" shape, at least initially.

And maybe it can keep having an irregular shape, depending on the mass distribution inside it?

1. captainkrtek ◴[14 Jul 25 21:45 UTC] No.44565706[source]▶

Here is an animation from MIT/CalTech of what a merger looks like:

LIGO detects most massive black hole merger to date