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Collision of two black holes

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Anninos, Peter, Hobill, David, Seidel, Edward, Smarr, Larry, Suen, Wai-Mo·1993·Physical Review Letters
DOI 10.1103/physrevlett.71.2851
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We study the head-on collision of two equal-mass, nonrotating black holes. We consider various cases, from holes surrounded by a common horizon to holes separated by about 20M, where M is the mass of each hole. The wave forms and energy output are computed, showing that normal modes of the final black hole are clearly excited. We also estimate analytically the total gravitational radiation emitted, considering tidal heating of horizons and other effects. The analytic calculations, perturbation theory, and strong-field, nonlinear numerical calculations agree very well with each other.

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Authors
Anninos, P., Hobill, D., Seidel, E., Smarr, L., & Suen, W.-M.
Venue
Physical Review Letters
Publisher
American Physical Society (APS)
Published
1993-11-01
Volume
71
Issue
18
Pages
2851-2854
ISSN
0031-9007 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.71.2851
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252
References
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Type
journal article
Language
en
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