• Question: what happens if two black holes eat eachother?

    Asked by olivetree123 to Christine, Ollie on 5 Mar 2018. This question was also asked by 399sptm33.
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      Christine Simpson answered on 5 Mar 2018:

      They form a really big black hole and they give out lots of gravitational waves as they come toward eachother- we can measure those waves using the LIGO detectors in the USA and the VIRGO detector in Italy.

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