On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 1:00 AM, Terren Suydam <[email protected]>
wrote:

​> ​
> Sure, but John said the black holes lost 3 solar masses, which was
> converted into gravitational waves... how?  Fusion and fission are easy
> examples of mass to energy conversion - so what's the specific interaction
> here according to theory?
>

​Einstein found in General Relativity a new law of nature, he said it takes
energy to make gravitational waves and that an accelerating mass produces
gravitational waves, just as Maxwell said a accelerating charged particle
makes a electromagnetic wave. Normally this effect is far too small to be
important and can be ignored, but when it's something as massive as a black
hole and its vibrating at almost the speed of light as it tries to become
spherical we now know that gravity waves can not be ignored and Einstein
was right. General Relativity has passed its most stringent test yet and
passed it with flying colors!

 John K Clark

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