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by agardini
Fri May 10, 2024 5:36 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Simulation: Two Black Holes Merge (2024 May 10)
Replies: 21
Views: 822

Re: APOD: Simulation: Two Black Holes Merge (2024 May 10)

Hello everybody, I have a question about the BHs' masses. I imagined that nothing could escape from a BH (except perhaps by Hawking radiation) but it seems that part of the mass of a couple of merging BHs is radiated as GW. I suspect that the energy emitted as GW comes from the kinetic/gravitationa...
by agardini
Fri May 10, 2024 9:07 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Simulation: Two Black Holes Merge (2024 May 10)
Replies: 21
Views: 822

Re: APOD: Simulation: Two Black Holes Merge (2024 May 10)

Hello everybody, I have a question about the BHs' masses. I imagined that nothing could escape from a BH (except perhaps by Hawking radiation) but it seems that part of the mass of a couple of merging BHs is radiated as GW. I suspect that the energy emitted as GW comes from the kinetic/gravitational...
by agardini
Wed Dec 01, 2021 8:08 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: A Blue-Banded Blood Moon (2021 Dec 01)
Replies: 24
Views: 20685

Re: APOD: A Blue-Banded Blood Moon (2021 Dec 01)

Hi; I wish to point out that in the last sentence of the Explanation it is written that an eclipse will occour tomorrow (2 Dec.) rather than on 4 Dec.