Monday, 3 October 2016

general relativity - Energy Conversion from Mass to Gravitational Wave


How is mass converted to gravitational wave energy by inspiralling binary black holes?


Is the gravitational wave energy coming purely from the kinetic energy/gravitational potential of the two black holes? Or does the merged black hole emit mass beyond that?




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