As I continue to learn more and more about black holes, I like to also visualize how they are formed. One way black holes could be formed is called a “merger”, where two heavy objects spiral around each other until they merge and form a black hole. This supercomputer simulation shows one of the most violent events in the universe: a pair of neutron stars colliding, merging and forming a black hole. A neutron star is the compressed core left behind when a star explodes as a supernova. The video is a computer simulation from NASA of what would happen. The amazing part is that this entire phenomenon happens in less than 10 milliseconds! Instead of just reading about them abstractly, these sort of videos really help me picture black holes.
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