hi hi   
      
   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.   
      
   I am curious about what mechanism is responsible for this phenomenon.  For a   
   layperson such as myself, it seems a little counter-intuitive.     
      
   It is my understanding that the escape velocity from a 2 solar mass black hole   
   does not reach the speed of light until 3 kilometers away from the   
   singularity, so I don't know what mechanism prevents a pair of 2 solar mass   
   black holes from passing each    
   other at 5 kilometers.  I've tried to look to see if the escape velocity   
   equation changes when two massive bodies are involved, but google was no help.   
      
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