Yes it does help! Can we ask a bit further though about the kinetic energy, and if you increase further and further, is there a point where it becomes so dominant that the EHs can overlap for some time?
I am asking on here to get an answer, so that someone might be able to point me to a good paper/book/paragraph. Is that not what this forum is for?
Would you respond to my question with some backup discussion? It is a very specific scenario, and gets hardly any coverage online. What I have read...
No, just stating that is not enough. You're just saying that, at any kinetic energy, no matter it's magnitude, the two masses MUST merge, just because the event horizons overlap. The event horizon being nothing more than the boundary where the escape velocity is c. It is not a physical entity...
I understand that, but that is for black holes that merge. The specific question here is a dynamic meeting where they don't merge. The idea being that a particle within the EH of one black hole could be pulled out by the dynamic influence of another. I've never read any discussions about this...
Scenario:
You have two black holes approaching, one from the left (A), one from the right (B), each at speed S.
They are offset vertically. S is sufficiently high that they will deflect passed each other without merging.
Question:
Suppose the speed S is high enough so that the event...