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08-May-2008, 09:39 PM
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Black Hole Mergers FTL?
Say you have two supermassive galaxies with two supermassive black holes that are about to merge into on galaxy. Now, the two supermassive black holes would orbit each other until they eventually merged into one very supermassive black hole. My question is this, could not the black hole's gravity cause them to orbit near or beyond the speed of light? Could they not have enough gravity to do so?
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08-May-2008, 09:52 PM
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Nope.
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08-May-2008, 10:19 PM
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(In this case, is it: one object's instantaneous velocity relative to the other?)
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08-May-2008, 10:32 PM
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The question boils down to, can gravity cause FTL speed?
Short answer no. Gravity accelerates particles. The speed of light makes no mention of acceleration. They're in different camps. Nothing that can accelerate will ever surpass 'c' locally. warning: Don't quote Cerenkov on me, I'll go ballistic!!!
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11-May-2008, 07:04 AM
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11-May-2008, 01:51 PM
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Light doesn't accelerate. If we consider things that are allowed to accelerate, they are not going the speed of light and never will.
Different levels of existence really.
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