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Asymmetric black hole merger


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LIGO and VIRGO have detected gravitational waves from the merger of two black holes of vastly different mass (8 and 30 solar masses).

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 The mass ratio between the two black holes is "roughly equal to the ratio of filling in a regular Oreo to in a Mega Stuf Oreo," Berry noted.

"Investigations of connections between Oreos and black hole formation are ongoing."

https://www.sciencealert.com/this-black-hole-collision-is-the-first-with-wildly-mismatched-masses

They have a nice animation of the merger.

This enables some further tests of GR (plot spoiler: results consistent with GR).

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Maybe he ate too many Oreos; I myself got a craving after reading Stange's post.

Didn't read it in the link, but would the detected quadrupole radiation be asymmetric also ?
IOW more pronounced along one axis compared to the other ?

( don't feel like digging out Gravitation to check )

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