When a Black Hole Can Split Apart ⚡ экспресс
Original: "When Black Holes Can Wear Pants"
Black hole splitting is a rare event, possible only with extreme rotation or in other dimensions.
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Giant black holes can 'bud,' shedding small fragments of their horizon—like an iceberg losing chunks. Usually, the laws of physics forbid this: after splitting, the total area would be smaller, and entropy cannot decrease. But for rapidly rotating holes, the prohibition weakens. Such fragmentation could have influenced the birth of primordial black holes.
🎯 Merging black holes, on the contrary, always increases the total area—this process resembles the merging of mercury droplets and is accompanied by powerful [tag:gravitational_waves]gravitational waves[/tag].