1998/03/02 by Jorge Pullin, Pullin, Jorge
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #gr-qc
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/9803005
19 pages, crckapb.sty, 7 figures included with psfig, talk given at GR15, Poona, India, to appear in the proceedings
arxiv created 1998/03/02 · openalex publication_date 1998/03/02 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We summarize the state of the art of the ``close approximation'' to black hole collisions. We discuss results to first and second order in perturbation theory for head-on collisions of momentarily-stationary and non-stationary black holes and discuss the near-future prospect of non-axisymmetric collisions.