Members of the SXS collaboration are pleased to announce new movies [1] and [2] that show how the night sky would look in the presence of a binary black hole merger.
The images are distorted because the light rays that reach your eye don’t follow straight lines, but are bent (dramatically) by the enormous spacetime curvature near the black holes. The paths of individual light rays are computed in order to make these movies. Details can be found at [arXiv:1410.7775].