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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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In which direction would gravitational waves be emitted when two black holes colide?
Imagine two black holes on the x-axis coming together at the origin (not rotating around each other, just falling towards each other).
In which direction would the most intense gravitational waves be ...
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What happens to the accretion disk when two black holes merge?
I'm aware that accretion disks around black holes are formed from the swirling mass of matter that is slowly being stripped of its atoms, but what happens to it when two black holes merge? I was ...
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Can a binary star system create a stationary black hole?
Research over the last 200 years suggests that half or more of visible stars are part of multiple star systems.
I apologise for the number of assumptions in my question but, because of the numbers of ...
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