• DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.84.063008
Corpus ID: 119264596

Shadows of colliding black holes

@article{Nitta2011ShadowsOC,
  title={Shadows of colliding black holes},
  author={D. Nitta and T. Chiba and N. Sugiyama},
  journal={Physical Review D},
  year={2011},
  volume={84},
  pages={063008}
}

D. Nitta, T. Chiba, N. Sugiyama

Published 2011

Physics

Physical Review D

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We compute the shadows of colliding black holes using the Kastor-Traschen cosmological multiblack hole solution that is an exact solution describing the collision of maximally charged black holes with a positive cosmological constant. We find that in addition to the shadow of each black hole, an eyebrowlike structure appears as the black holes come close to each other. These features can be used as probes to find the multiblack hole system at the final stage of its merger process.