What happens when Black Holes Collide

130816 Like and subscribe. This is an archive, check the link in the end if you are owner. When two black holes spiral towards each other and collide, they produce powerful gravitational waves. Scientists do not know much about these waves right now, but within about a decade, they will have collected pictures of the waveforms produced in many black hole collisions. These waveforms give us information about the properties of black holes and about oscillations of space and time. Anticipating a library of waveforms to be analyzed, CalTech physicist Kip Thorne is using computer simulations to create a waveform dictionary.

Original Program Date: June 4, 2010
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