Re: A partial black hole?

On 2008-02-24, Crown-Horned Snorkack <chornedsnorkack@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> So, what precisely do the singularities do in the end?

I really don't know.  I'd welcome any references that might enlighten
me, since I couldn't find any.  All I've been able to find are major
simplifications of the extremely complicated problem, sprinkled
liberally with cautions about assumptions.


> Before the black holes touch, the singularities (of Schwarzschild or
> Nordström black holes) are both mathematical points.
>
> After the merger, what you have is a Kerr black hole, or a Newman
> black hole.

The interior of the hole will almost certainly not be described by the
Kerr metric.  The metric technically satisfies the equations, but it's
unphysical.  It's known to be dynamically unstable.


- Tim