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From: umdhep@eneevax.UUCP (Todd Aven)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: YAQ about BLACK HOLES
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Date: Tue, 20-Aug-85 12:03:45 EDT
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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.
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