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LIGO detects most massive black hole merger to date

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360 points Eduard | 1 comments | 14 Jul 25 20:06 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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cloudrkt ◴[14 Jul 25 20:32 UTC] No.44564917[source]▶
I wonder how the singularities would merge with each other.
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Enginerrrd ◴[14 Jul 25 20:35 UTC] No.44564946[source]▶
We can't REALLY answer questions about what's inside the event horizon, but some real work has been done on what BH mergers look like, though even that as I understand, is extremely difficult model.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5AkT4bPk-00

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TechDebtDevin ◴[14 Jul 25 22:21 UTC] No.44565989[source]▶
What are the waves of gradient colors, gravity?
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1. 20k ◴[15 Jul 25 07:56 UTC] No.44568962[source]▶
I'd guess its the weyl scalar w4, which is generally used to extract gravitational waves