• Question: what would happen if two blackholes swallowed each other

    Asked by SIBE EXILE to Peter on 14 Nov 2016.
    • Photo: Peter Boorman

      Peter Boorman answered on 14 Nov 2016:

      Great question!

      They would likely produce ‘gravitational waves’, which are essentially ripples in space-time! These ‘gravitational waves’ were detected for the first time recently, by an experiment called LIGO, which detected a tiny change in size of atoms, due to the effect of being pushed and pulled by the gravitational waves given off from two merging black holes!

      Peter

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