When black holes collide

Warrigal

Warrigal

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I bow to a superior intellect, Warri. Interested as I am in the goings on of the Universe, there are a few things that are too much strain for this tired old brain. Black holes, alternate universes and quantum physics are a struggle for me. I know they are important, but don't ask me to explain why.
 

Wow, it's amazing what the scientific mind can achieve. Two lines from the article made me go "Wow."
"The first detected burst of gravitational waves came from a black hole merger which emitted more energy in one second than all the stars in the universe combined."

"The ripples from these strongest waves are so small — only a fraction the size of an atom — that Einstein himself thought they had to be beyond our technology."
 
So if wave potentialities become particles which make up the physical reality that we see around us and then those physical objects (stars, planets, the long lost starship 'Event Horizon':)) get sucked into them, are those particles torn apart and now without the benefit of an observer, do they revert to a swirling mass of 'wave potentialities'? And 'where' is it that the wave potentialities are swirling? Another dimension, another place, another universe:confused:?

Not sure if I phrased that right Warrigal, but since you seem like a very smart lady with a brain for science, could you possibly clarify that? Like what is in a black hole after 'stuff' gets sucked in? Does anyone know?
 
Almost posted this myself. Fascinating.

Stunning numbers in human terms in the scope of things I guess a fraction. 1.4 Billion years old. 100 million years older than first one detected. The black hole 21 times the mass of the sun. And they think they've found a third one
 
Debby said:
So if wave potentialities become particles which make up the physical reality that we see around us and then those physical objects (stars, planets, the long lost starship 'Event Horizon':)) get sucked into them, are those particles torn apart and now without the benefit of an observer, do they revert to a swirling mass of 'wave potentialities'? And 'where' is it that the wave potentialities are swirling? Another dimension, another place, another universe:confused:?

Not sure if I phrased that right Warrigal, but since you seem like a very smart lady with a brain for science, could you possibly clarify that? Like what is in a black hole after 'stuff' gets sucked in? Does anyone know?
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Could I clarify that? Not in a million years.

All I was thinking is that the gravitational waves are likely to carry information that we can analyse over time to get a better understanding of the universe through which they pass. Just as electromagnetic rays can be analysed spectroscopically to determine the composition of stars and seismic waves can tell us about the interior structures of the earth, perhaps gravitational waves could answer questions about dark matter and dark energy.
 

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