New Movies
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(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNnBnRuzHJ0) and
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Kgfxl1Jk6k) that show how the night
sky would look in the presence of a binary black hole merger. The
image is 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 in this paper (http://arxiv.org/abs/1410.7775).
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Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run twice as fast as that.