[Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit]

giving the fabric of space-time a good shake.

All kidding aside, can anyone begin to explain what this actually means? I understand that a lot of energy will be released at the X-ray level, but not really an explosion vis a vis a super-nova because no matter will escape the gravitational pull.

Einstein said gravity was merely a distortion of the time-space grid by matter and energy. Fine, I saw the Simpson episode where they tried to visualize it, but what does such a collision really mean in terms of physics and reality?

[goldstategop]

Put simply, a black hole is an agglomeration of nothingness. Everything that's sucked inside it disappears and never comes out again. That's how ominous they are as celestial objects.