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Question 3:

You should not think of the singularity (corresponding to a black hole) as moving in space-time. It is not. So you are asking the wrong question if your motivation is gravitational waves.

The answer to the question you did ask however is "yes", see the work of Einstein-Infeld-Hoffman.

Question 5:

First, finite propagation speed always holds, by virtue of Einstein's equations being essentially hyperbolic. (This is a purely local property, whereas global hyperbolicity, as its name suggests, is a global property.)

Second, you are correct that the definition of a black hole is teleological: you only know what a black hole is if you know what the null infinity looks like. However, for numerical computations a much more acceptable, local substitute is used. Instead of the event horizon (which is defined as the boundary of the past of future null infinity), it is much more common to use the apparent horizon as a proxy for the boundary of the black hole. The apparent horizon will always sit within the black hole, and captures a local notion of "no escape". And in particular global geometry does not come into play in the excision process. (For more about apparent horizons, Wikipedia has a fairly readable lay discussion.)

Question 3:

You should not think of the singularity (corresponding to a black hole) as moving in space-time. It is not. So you are asking the wrong question if your motivation is gravitational waves.

The answer to the question you did ask however is "yes", see the work of Einstein-Infeld-Hoffman.

Question 3:

You should not think of the singularity (corresponding to a black hole) as moving in space-time. It is not. So you are asking the wrong question if your motivation is gravitational waves.

The answer to the question you did ask however is "yes", see the work of Einstein-Infeld-Hoffman.

Question 5:

First, finite propagation speed always holds, by virtue of Einstein's equations being essentially hyperbolic. (This is a purely local property, whereas global hyperbolicity, as its name suggests, is a global property.)

Second, you are correct that the definition of a black hole is teleological: you only know what a black hole is if you know what the null infinity looks like. However, for numerical computations a much more acceptable, local substitute is used. Instead of the event horizon (which is defined as the boundary of the past of future null infinity), it is much more common to use the apparent horizon as a proxy for the boundary of the black hole. The apparent horizon will always sit within the black hole, and captures a local notion of "no escape". And in particular global geometry does not come into play in the excision process. (For more about apparent horizons, Wikipedia has a fairly readable lay discussion.)

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Willie Wong
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Question 3:

You should not think of the singularity (corresponding to a black hole) as moving in space-time. It is not. So you are asking the wrong question if your motivation is gravitational waves.

The answer to the question you did ask however is "yes", see the work of Einstein-Infeld-Hoffman.