Crashing Black Holes Explained (VIDEO)

California Institute of Technology

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Caltech graduate student Keefe Mitman explains a new mathematical model of black hole collisions that contains nonlinear gravitational effects--a phenomenon he compares to what happens when two people jump wildly on a trampoline.

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Caltech

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