What would happen if two black wholes where facing each other, would they stop or suck each other in or what?

Answer 1

Wow, 24 answers and only George Spigg came even close to the right answer. The amount of sheer ignorance regarding black holes is simply incredible. People obviously get most of their "facts" from science fiction and not from reality.

NUMBER ONE!!! Black holes are NOT cosmic vacuum cleaners! They do not "suck" any more than our own sun "sucks." Mass is mass and gravity is gravity. Just because you have a large mass in a small space doesn't suddenly turn it into a giant sucking machine devouring anything that dares get within a billion miles of it. In fact, it would take MILLIONS OF YEARS to "fall" into a black hole...and as George Spigg indicated, that would be a very long spiral fall. This is true even if you are relative close to a black hole (much closer than Mercury is to our sun).

Now, to answer the question...let's say these two black holes are as far apart as the Earth and the sun are. Guess what happens? The black holes ORBIT each other...and they do that for millions if not billions of years before they would eventually spiral into one another.

Answer 2

I actually have experience with this type of situation; When I was in middle school, a couple of idiots sat next to each other in the back of my Algebra class... Of course, one was bigger than the other. Eventually, the bigger one sucked the smaller one in until they were basically one and the same, and they essentially created a huge black hole of suck, and went around sucking a lot. It was quite an interesting scenario, and I consider myself fortunate to have witnessed it first-hand.

Answer 3

The two black holes would amalgamate into one larger one, though not necessarily super-massive, like those thought to be at the centres of galaxies, it depends on the actual combined mass, not on the fact of amalgamation.

By the way the larger one cannot leach matter from the smaller as, by definition, nothing, not even light, can escape from (or hence be pulled from) a black hole.

Answer 4

The two black holes would orbit each other in ever decreasing spirals, gaining momentum as they spun.
Their points of singularity would converge causing a burst of energy in the stream of super-energised photons that jet out of the center of the black hole at close to the speed of light, perpendicular to the plane of the black hole itsself and extend for hundreds of light years onto the 'void' of space.

Answer 5

if 2 black wholes start travelling towards each other. nothing can stop them. they would combine to form an even more massive black hole. in this process the galaxies which surrounds them will be thrown out into space at enormous speeds. totally chaotic event. you cant even think of energy that will be released.

Answer 6

They would just mold together to form a greater, denser black hole. Although, in theory, a black hole is a portal to another spot in space, so with that in mind you might end up molding 4 different spots in space together and everything in between those spots would be automatically wiped out.

Answer 7

If they fall inside each other's 'event horizons' they will collide and form a combined singularity. The phrase 'singularity' doesn't mean it can't be added to - it simply means a super-dense point of space where the known laws of physics aren't fully understood.

Answer 8

Not possible. The one which contains more mass may be able to leach matter from the smaller one if it is close enough. All of the matter from the smaller one must pass the EVENT HORIZON of the larger one. No two stars ever actually touch, but may rob matter from one of smaller mass.

ps: holes not wholes - i thought you meant w*ores and was cracking up - geez...

Answer 9

well i learned this in school but it depends which one is stronger if one was stronger it would suck in the weaker and it would be massive just like it gets bigger when it sucks in stars. but if they are equal they might combine to a big on but chances are they are not close enough to suck in each other

Answer 10

it's all depending on the gravity of both one could suck in the other. They could collide causing a cosmic bang, they could eliminate one another. basically no one knows since we don't even have a shred o physical evidence of the excistence of black holes.