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Herbascious J
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Imagine two black holes at great distance. They are both spatially separate and both completely collapsed to a singularity. Gravity begins to pull them together. According to the equation for the gravitation potential energy of two objects at distance…
Ug = -GMm/r
…These two objects begin to lose gravitational potential energy as a system. This causes kinetic energy (KE) to increase between the two objects as they approach. If these two black holes are singularities, would it be true that their spatial separation (r) would begin to approach 0, and in so doing, their KE would begin to approach infinity? This seems strange to me, because I can imagine a scenario where the KE among these objects is so high, that their energy contribution from KE is higher than their energy contribution from their matter. And wouldn’t this have an effect on the total energy of the resultant merged black hole and it’s gravitational field?
Ug = -GMm/r
…These two objects begin to lose gravitational potential energy as a system. This causes kinetic energy (KE) to increase between the two objects as they approach. If these two black holes are singularities, would it be true that their spatial separation (r) would begin to approach 0, and in so doing, their KE would begin to approach infinity? This seems strange to me, because I can imagine a scenario where the KE among these objects is so high, that their energy contribution from KE is higher than their energy contribution from their matter. And wouldn’t this have an effect on the total energy of the resultant merged black hole and it’s gravitational field?