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DescriptionMergingBlackHoles V2.jpg	English: Numerical simulations of the gravitational waves emitted by the inspiral and merger of two black holes. The colored contours around each black hole represent the amplitude of the gravitational radiation; the blue lines represent the orbits of the black holes and the green arrows represent their spins.
Source	https://physics.aps.org/articles/v9/17 (image link)
Author	NASA/Ames Research Center/C. Henze

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