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A black hole is a region of spacetime from which nothing can escape. More formally, the future light cone of any observer within the black hole is completely contained in the black hole, and the black hole region is not within the past light cone of any observer that goes to spatial infinity in an infinite amount of time.

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Can two passing black holes touch without merging? [duplicate]

I've read a report about LIGO saying that the ring-down oscillation showed that it took time for the pair of BHs to fully merge, implying there was a momentary bulge as one circled around and into the …
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