On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 7:30 PM, Terren Suydam <[email protected]> wrote:
> β> β > As amazing as detecting the gravitational waves are, I'm actually more > interested in what happens when those two black holes collide... is the > resulting explosion entirely contained in the event horizon or is there any > possibility that matter/energy can escape due to the high energies involved? > βIt wasn't an explosion if anything it was an implosion and the results were not contained within the event horizon, if they were we wouldn't have been able to detect it. What we detected was a 36 solar mass black hole merging with a 29 solar mass black hole and producing a 62 solar mass black hole with the missing 3 solar masses being converted into energy in the form of gravitational waves, which is what LIGO saw. It all happened in a fifth of a second. If 3 solar masses had been converted to light instead of gravitational waves during that fifth of a second it would have been brighter than the rest of the universe put together. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
