Charting a Black Hole Crash

2006

What do you get when one black hole plunges into another?

What do you get when one black hole plunges into another?

A whole lot of space-shaking violence, according to the first 3-dimensional simulation of such a collision. The results will guide physicists who search for eerie distortions of space, called gravitational waves, that ripple from merging black holes and other superlative explosions.