In this video simulation of a black hole merger taken from wikipedia, there's a moment before they merge where the two wells begin to form a saddle shape. The edges of the saddle then begin to creep UP, above the plane, and at their highest point ~0:21 appear to have crept so high they're above the height of the black hole(s) before settling down into a single gravity well. It's a gravity peak rather than a trough, momentarily.What does this actually mean for spacetime to be so dramatically warped upward rather than downward into a well?
>>16968171Depends on what you mean by what it means.
>>16968171I think they start to travel at light speed
>>16968171Maybe it's an artifact from the calculation?
>>16968171Oscillations in spacetime by gravitational waves.It's not a peak in gravity but a bending of space (and time).
>>16968171antigravity, but really you being squished in one direction and pulled apart in the opposite by forces that break atomic nuclei.
>>16968171The arrows are pointing the wrong direction, on those peaks.Are you sure this calculation in right? Where did you get it?
>>16968973https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_wave
>>16968171more likely that's the limit where the model starts to diverge from reality and not make sense.
