Comments on: Black Hole Dance https://briankoberlein.com/2017/07/05/black-hole-dance/ Brian Koberlein Tue, 19 Feb 2019 13:26:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.3 By: Elver S.S. https://briankoberlein.com/2017/07/05/black-hole-dance/#comment-5389 Tue, 11 Jul 2017 06:37:11 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=6687#comment-5389 Neil Dickson, this link should answer some of your questions. Cheers.

https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/page/facts

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]]> By: Neil Dickson https://briankoberlein.com/2017/07/05/black-hole-dance/#comment-5386 Sun, 09 Jul 2017 02:18:42 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=6687#comment-5386 If two supermassive black holes merged, (not that that likely happens very often), would the signal be *too* large for something like LIGO to pick it up? Would it be able to detect the orbiting for a very long time before they merged? Would it act pretty much like the previous black hole merger detections, just be detectable from farther away? (Sorry for all the questions; I just don’t have a good intuition for what it would be like, and I’m rather curious.) 🙂

]]> By: Daniel Gozzani https://briankoberlein.com/2017/07/05/black-hole-dance/#comment-5382 Wed, 05 Jul 2017 21:14:07 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=6687#comment-5382 From what I’ve got from other articles they should merge in at least millions of years in the future…since the galaxy is 750 million light-years from Earth, they should be one by now – we are just waiting for the gravitational waves to reach us!

]]> By: Brian Koberlein https://briankoberlein.com/2017/07/05/black-hole-dance/#comment-5381 Wed, 05 Jul 2017 16:37:29 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=6687#comment-5381 They are orbiting each other, so they are only slowly moving closer to each other.

]]> By: Maximillian https://briankoberlein.com/2017/07/05/black-hole-dance/#comment-5380 Wed, 05 Jul 2017 16:31:37 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=6687#comment-5380 Do we know how fast they’re moving towards each other?

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