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MattPalmer1086 ◴[] No.44565128[source]
I wonder what would happen if one black hole shot through another one at high relativistic velocity, instead of spiralling towards one another.
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fsmv ◴[] No.44565138[source]
They would merge and produce a black hole with the sum of their momentums

Because nothing can ever leave the event horizon black holes are essentially perfectly sticky.

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mkw5053 ◴[] No.44565268[source]
So, if two black holes, each with mass M, were moving at nearly the speed of light and collided head-on (resulting in a final velocity of zero), what would happen to all that momentum? Would the resulting black hole have a mass greater than 2M? If so, how and why would this occur?
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1. dkural ◴[] No.44566194[source]
It would create a universe, obviously. First all the mass would attempt being squished at a singularity. WHILE the squishing continues, the first-in-line stuff would've already started to explode back-out inside the event horizon. From the inside viewpoint, this looks like the big bang. Once all the mass from the two black holes collide and loose momentum, the inside-universe no longer expands as fast. Things wobble a bit as all this happens, creating tangles and non-homogeneity. Could be caused by initial Planck-scale uncertainties even when having a perfect head-on collision.