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shiftycansnipe t1_iyebdh6 wrote

There is so much space between stars that nearly no collisions occur. The gravity well surrounding the black hole will accelerate bodies around it, before any collision or consumption occurs. It’s a disruption more than a collision.

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[deleted] OP t1_iyebpx5 wrote

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SaltySandSailor t1_iyedrsd wrote

Yes, they’re called “rogue” or “intergalactic” stars.

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mangalore-x_x t1_iyev4o1 wrote

The one interesting thing is what happens when two super black holes of two galaxy cores merge. How that would work over what time and how would this event happen?

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shiftycansnipe t1_iyevh5w wrote

Same thing, they will begin orbiting one another. The gravity wells are huge and they would have to be Pixel perfect to collide head on which the odds are so vanishingly small as to be treated as zero

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mangalore-x_x t1_iyf1ob4 wrote

I am more interested in the moment those two merge millions/billions years later. Aka not expecting them to smash into each other on first pass.

I do not think I ever read about observation of binary galaxy cores, yet. or that galaxies harbor several super massive black holes as remnants of mergers.

Obviously time frame would be massive and beyond some single pass of of two galaxies in gravitational influence of each other.

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shiftycansnipe t1_iyf20af wrote

We’ve already detected the gravitational waves of two solar masses black holes merging. here is the sound it made

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