Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Black holes merging

Black holes merging edit

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Original – Computer simulation of the binary black hole GW150914 as seen by a nearby observer, during its final inspiral, merge, and ringdown. The star field behind the black holes is being heavily distorted and appears to rotate and move, due to extreme gravitational lensing, as space-time itself is distorted and dragged around by the rotating black holes.

Reason: Eye-catching computer simulation from a reliable source, high EV.
Articles in which this image appears: Binary black hole, First observation of gravitational waves
FP category for this image: Space/Understanding
Creator: LIGO

Support as nominator – Brandmeister^talk 14:01, 20 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support Sure! Looks good, even if likely a bit of artistic license insofar as I believe black holes tend to have more accretion discs than shown. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 12:42, 21 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Jobas (talk) 20:02, 21 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nergaal (talk) 04:44, 28 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support Beautiful animation covering very recent news. SkywalkerPL (talk) 17:12, 28 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:BBH gravitational lensing of gw150914.webm --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 15:09, 1 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Added image to Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Looking out instead. --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 15:09, 1 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]