Friday, 5 February 2016

Why It’s Hard for Black Holes to Get Together

Why It’s Hard for Black Holes to Get Together

It begins like a classic romance: Two black holes meet. The attraction is practically instant. They dance around each other, swirling, until… Until what? As with any love affair, this is where things get messy. First predicted by Einstein’s theory of general relativity, black holes are bottomless pits in the fabric of spacetime—gravitational wells so deep that nothing, not even light, can escape.

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