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Effects of Supermassive Black Hole Merger on Nearby Bodies
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[QUOTE="collinsmark, post: 6630714, member: 114325"] Regarding the two supermassive black holes themselves, neither would be ejected anywhere. Before the merger, they would be rotating around their common barycenter, and after the merger, the resulting merged (and larger) supermassive black hole would remain at that common barycenter. That said, any nearby, gravitationally locked bodies (stars, planets, etc) [I]could[/I] -- but not necessarily [I]would[/I] -- get slingshotted out of the region, as part of the process of the merger. I'll leave this for others to comment on. But I'm pretty confident that nearby stars and planets would not be destroyed (assuming they are not so close to be a part of the accretion disks), and I speculate that it wouldn't even be very dramatic. [/QUOTE]
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