Timeline for Why do "they" portray colliding black holes like that?
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| Apr 21, 2017 at 22:09 | vote | accept | Terran | ||
| Mar 30, 2017 at 7:41 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAstronomy/status/847353068370907136 | ||
| Mar 29, 2017 at 22:27 | answer | added | James K | timeline score: 6 | |
| Mar 29, 2017 at 19:17 | comment | added | Carl Witthoft | My guess is they're showing a transient shape of the horizons, analogous to the shape of EM fields as two magnets or charged particles come together | |
| Mar 29, 2017 at 18:25 | comment | added | Terran | But the same problems arises; contact binaries have material transfer through a "bridge" between the two objects. Black holes, having "infinite" density, would have no such transfer. So the collision would have different dynamics because of this. | |
| Mar 29, 2017 at 17:41 | comment | added | Cody | Maybe you can get somewhere reading about contact binaries. Obviously they're not black holes, but the shape of the stars as they merge together is governed by the same laws of gravity as black holes, and they form similar shapes. This might be an easier topic to search for that will still answer your question. | |
| Mar 29, 2017 at 15:17 | comment | added | zephyr | Related: physics.stackexchange.com/questions/18769/… | |
| Mar 29, 2017 at 0:56 | history | asked | Terran | CC BY-SA 3.0 |