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Hills Mechanism
The Hills mechanism postulates that when a stellar binary system is perturbed by a supermassive black hole (SMBH), the tidal forces at play result in the capture of one star while simultaneously ...
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Should a black holes binary system in fase of imminent merge shrink the parts of the event horizons of both black holes where they face each other?
Should a black holes binary system in fase of imminent merge shrink the inner parts of the event horizons of both black holes where they directly face each other? So the 'singularities' have the inner ...
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Magnetar's magnetic field near a black hole (novice question)
Even light cannot escape the event horizon of a black hole. Now, imagine a magnetar orbits a black hole. The magnetar orbits too far to be ripped and consumed by the black-hole. However, its magnetic ...
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How to convert from polarization modes ($h_{+}$, $h_{×}$) to obtain spin-weighted spherical harmonic $h_{lm}$ as a function of $h_{+}$, $h_{×}$?
This question arises from a discussion in the thread How to convert from plus and cross polarization modes ($h_{+}$, $h_{×}$) to spin-weighted spherical harmonic $h_{lm}$?
I was looking for a ...
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Quadrupole moment tensor
I am currently working on gravitational waves, and as in every lecture on general relativity I derived the symmetric trace-free perturbation of a Minkowski metric with the Lorenz gauge condition, ...
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