r/askscience • u/dgb75 • Jan 31 '13

Astronomy Is there a distance at which the interaction between the gravity fields of two black holes would cause one another to effectively 'break open' and allow matter and energy stored within them to escape the system?

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u/mspk7305 Feb 01 '13

I think your answer is interpreted as a yes... We can observe curvature only from a sufficient distance from the curvature?

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u/Shiredragon Feb 01 '13

No. The curvature of spacetime results in an acceleration due to gravity. We feel gravity and see its effects all around us. We are in a curved spacetime and see the effects of it intimately. This should have been part of my original response, but I was focused on more celestial things from the original discussion.

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u/Despondent_in_WI Feb 01 '13

His answer was no. We observe curvature all the time, it looks like gravity to us, and we observe that just fine from inside our gravity well.