From: yattering_nospam@web.de   
      
   Am 06.02.2017 um 20:49 schrieb knhauber@gmail.com:   
   > Thanks for the response.  This really has been a tough one for me, and the   
   math involved in frame dragging and other oddities is something I haven't been   
   able to figure out yet.   
   >   
   >>    No. If the event horizons merge at all, they stay merged. If the object   
   was between them when they merge it's Doomed.   
      
   If that is the case, it has to be for a completely GR-induced reason   
   inaccessible to Newtonian analogies (in which an event horizon could just be   
   seen as the surface on which escape speed equals light speed).  There, two BHs   
   could indeed have an    
   encounter so close that their "event horizons" would overlap briefly and still   
   merrily head off afterwards.  A point mass sitting idly in their common   
   barycenter would not be harmed, despite being temporarily engulfed inside this   
   jointly formed "event    
   horizon".   
      
   Jens.   
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