Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site eneevax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!umcp-cs!eneevax!umdhep From: umdhep@eneevax.UUCP (Todd Aven) Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: YAQ about BLACK HOLES Message-ID: <349@eneevax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 20-Aug-85 12:03:45 EDT Article-I.D.: eneevax.349 Posted: Tue Aug 20 12:03:45 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 23-Aug-85 20:01:45 EDT References: <498@sri-arpa.ARPA> Reply-To: aven%umdhep.bitnet@wiscvm.arpa (Todd Aven) Organization: U of Maryland, EE Dept., College Park, MD Lines: 18 Summary: Can black holes collide? Here's a simple question with perhaps a not-so-simple solution: I am led to understand that time is slower as one approaches a black hole. Can a black hole collide with another black hole in a finite length of time in a) its reference frame or b) in an inertial reference frame outside the pair? I guess that the solution depends upon the convergence of an integral with respect to time, but I don't have the background to set up the integral. ============================================================ |Todd Aven MANAGER@UMDHEP.BITNET | |Softwear Sweatshop AVEN@UMCINCOM (arpanet, bitnet)| |High Energy Physics UMDHEP@ENEEVAX.UUCP | |University of Maryland | |College Park, MD 20742 (301)454-3508 | ============================================================