Black Hole Merger Animation

The movie shows a merger of two galaxies (simulation) that forms a single galaxy with two centrally located supermassive black holes surrounded by disks of hot gas. The black holes orbit each other for hundreds of millions of years before they merge to form a single supermassive black hole that sends out intense gravitational waves.
Animation: NASA/CXC/A.Hobart
Simulation: Josh Barnes (U of Hawaii)/John Hibbard (NRAO)

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• Black
• Hole
• Merger
• Animation

[supergiuovane]

@alpha3939 It's no a black hole merger, but it's not art either. It's computer simulation

[chameleodon]

i lol'ed

[alpha3939]

Not accurate at all. Very misleading title and description.

This is just art, don't try to sell it differently.

[PJ6111]

Oh, yeah. No one has the right to criticize something if they can't do better themselves. Not.

[kernelhazzard]

in the center of our galaxy are black holes the size of solar systems spinning around each other, sallowing each other and the massive stars around them. And if they arnt going past the speed of light( which they are not, just really fucking fast) then i dont think anything will.

[riverjoe128]

Well physics from atom nucleus to bigger stuff is basically electromagnetic pulses spinning upon themselves. This is a really general overview. See it as light at its c speed spinning, and thats (sort of) the reason matter tends to stand still (inertia). If you think it that way, it might make sense when one says matter can´t top the speed of light, because matter is light itself.

[744268]

hmmm...as the black holes get closer they spin faster...if they keep spinning faster will they eventually go beyond the speed of light?

[PJ6111]

Lame. An "artists" work.

[143522]

i wonder wat they wud call it