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Black Hole Merger
Animation
QuickTime
MPEG
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The movie shows a merger of two galaxies
(simulation) that forms a single galaxy with two
centrally located supermassive black holes
surrounded by disks of hot gas. The black holes
orbit each other for hundreds of millions of
years before they merge to form a single
supermassive black hole that sends out intense
gravitational waves.
[Runtime: 0:43]
Animation: NASA/CXC/A.
Hobart
Simulation: Josh Barnes
(U. of Hawaii)/John Hibbard (NRAO)
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