Two black holes colliding - visual

[MattRob]

Although if you did fall in, your career as solipsist is guaranteed to end in the near future.

Yes of course, because as they say, "publish or perish", and that darned E.H. makes publishing impossible. Therefore, there's only one outcome possible.

 

[Sue Rich]

As a layman, I would think the two holes would resist each other. Assuming the are pulling with equal force gravity, I think they would remain in a stale-mate situation until they drifted by each other. If one was stronger, it would simply devour the weaker one.

 

[rootone]

As a layman, I would think the two holes would resist each other. Assuming the are pulling with equal force gravity, I think they would remain in a stale-mate situation until they drifted by each other. If one was stronger, it would simply devour the weaker one.

Your 'stalemate' situation is in practice that they end up for a long time in a mutual orbit. just as as the case with normal binary star systems.
Eventually (a long time), some of the angular momentum in the system can be lost for a variety of reasons, so the orbiting gets closer and faster.
There comes a point where the event horizons would be overlapping, but since that can't actually happen they then merge into one bigger black hole.

 

[PeterDonis]

I would think the two holes would resist each other.

I'm not sure why you would think this. Black holes have attractive gravity, just like other gravitating objects. They do not repel each other.