Starship Asterisk*

"One day, about eight billion years from now, planet Earth may spiral into our Sun." By that time our sun may be dead by about 3 billion years or so and be a white dwarf, correct? So what would happen then? Is there a video of such a merger? I've also read on APOD multiple times that Earth...

GW190521_Virgo_1080.jpg Oh My!!! Kaboom! 🌪 If 2 black holes collide; would not that be like 2 strong magnets coming together???? Either banging together or sling themselves fast apart? ⁉️ 🤯 It seems to me that the comparison is not the same. The two magnets are directly approaching each other and a...

Continuing the question, if one was looking at the black holes through a telescope from close range, what would one see? What if one turned the telescope 180° away to look at stars in the local distance, what would we see?

If a human were close enough to a black hole merger event, say within a light year or closer, would the human eye perceive spacial distortions from the gravity waves?