Illustration of two black holes held at a fixed distance (IMAGE)

University of Southampton

Illustration of two black holes held at a fixed distance

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Two black holes can be held at a fixed distance when their gravitational attraction (red arrows) is offset by the cosmic expansion (blue arrows) associated with a cosmological constant. Such a situation would mimic a single black hole for faraway observers.

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APS/Alan Stonebraker

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