Computer Simulation of Two Black Holes Merging

http://www.encognitive.com
Although black hole mergers are very rare in the universe, especially when these processes involve more than two cosmic bodies of this kind, nothing stops scientists from simulating black hole collisions within an artificial environment such as computer models. Researchers from Rochester Institute of Technology's School of Mathematical Sciences report to have conducted, for the first time, a computer simulation involving the merging of three black holes.

"We discovered rich dynamics leading to very elliptical orbits, complicated orbital dynamics, simultaneous triple mergers and complex gravitational waveforms that might be observed
by gravitational wave detectors such as LIGO and LISA," says Carlos Lousto, professor in RIT's School of Mathematical Sciences.
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[LuckyDukeSeven]

@Eviscera09

Math's not real.

[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.

[mastermidget21]

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

[Magnus1106]

What program did you use?

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

[extrapedestrian]

yup, simple as that

[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!

[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?

[CripingTheCripWalk]

hmm....