Black hole merger (IMAGE)

Penn State

Black hole merger

Caption

Artist's impression of orbiting black holes about to merge. New research, led by Penn State physicists, shows that the size of the resulting merged black hole can be predicted using simple thermodynamics.

Credit

LIGO/Caltech/MIT/R. Hurt (IPAC)

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