Computer Simulation of Two Black Holes Merging

[mastermidget21]

ive always sorta thought if 2 black holes collided then they would destroy eachother canceling them both out.

[Eviscera09]

@mastermidget21 this is a bit of an astronomical over simplification (no pun intended), but a basic rule of math is two negatives/positives equal a positive.

[LuckyDukeSeven]

@Eviscera09

Math's not real.

[Magnus1106]

What program did you use?

I would love to buy one of the proffesional programs, and learn to use it :)

[taqyon]

Awesome flick.

What would happen if the two black holes differed in mass significantly? Would the larger one "spaghettify" the smaller one, pulling it apart, increasing it's surface area, and area of gravitation pull, therefore releasing it's mass to the universe again, if only for a brief moment before it's taken up again by the large body?

[Dacoda23]

Wow that's a cool question! Here's my thought (for what it's worth!) If the by "matter being released" you mean it's observable again then I say no. Regardless of the mass of the black hole the gravitational force at the Schwartzchild radius of both should be equal. So unless the black hole event horizons were already overlapping one could not pull matter off the other. If they are already overlapping then it just goes straight from one to the other. Just my thought...makes sense for now!

[CripingTheCripWalk]

hmm....