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What happens to event horizons when black holes collide?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Event Horizon Is a Peanut Shape

The event horizon is not always spherical. In the transition between two bk holes and one black hole, that results in a weird sort of peanut shape. People do numerical relativity calculations to figure out exactly what the shape of the event horizon is. And you can find these images on line, if you want to look for the video. Wel put a link into the show notes ad.

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