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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: 0.534s | source
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BurningFrog ◴[14 Jul 25 21:40 UTC] No.44565671[source]▶
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?

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1. Permik ◴[15 Jul 25 08:30 UTC] No.44569143[source]▶
I'm no physicist but what I've learned on the internet through osmosis, I'd wager that black holes aren't spherical per-se, but they appear sphere-like to us dimensionally challenged beings. It's more like a manifold (mobius-gate? not a mobius surface), that changes your spatial directions to parallel temporal directions to spatial ones all leading to the singularity.