Can a black hole shrink another black hole's event horizon?

[Algren]

http://cdn4.sci-news.com/images/2016/02/image_3628-Gravitational-Waves.jpg
In the above image, i can see that the event horizon of each black hole has decreased in size. Does that mean that the event horizon can shrink in the presence of another black hole?

 

[Borg]

How are you concluding that they have decreased in size from a single image?

 

[Algren]

How are you concluding that they have decreased in size from a single image?

Its a screenshot of this video:

 

[Borg]

The event horizons are not perfectly spherical due to gravitational effects from each other but they're not decreasing in size.

 

[Algren]

The event horizons are not perfectly spherical due to gravitational effects from each other but they're not decreasing in size.

But as the two black holes come closer, don't their event horizons change shape and size, and perhaps shrink at some radial positions?
And if coming closer increases event horizon size(for all radial positions), wouldn't going away decrease the event horizon size?

 

[mfb]

The event horizons do not get smaller. Their images, distorted by the heavily curved spacetime, can appear smaller. I'm not even sure if that happens here. Would probably need some measurement of pixel diameters.