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Gravitational Waves Emitted by Colliding Black Holes

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This Demonstration gives a simplified picture of the emission of gravitational waves through spacetime caused by a binary black hole merger. Move the slider to see the gravitational waves emerge as the two black holes spiral into each other.

Contributed by: Akram Masoud (August 2022)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA

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