When black holes such as those detected by LIGO merge, in what ways does the Schwarzschild Radius warp? I was reading the paper about LIGO's detection of gravitational waves, and I wanted to know what the Schwarzschild Radius did. For example, I feel like the simulation here is oversimplified, and that reality wouldn't actually have that simple bump together of the two radii.
This is a better simulation SXS did for the LIGO detection (still frame below), the two event horizons (Schwarzschild Radii as you say) just simply come together and merge quite effortlessly like two bubbles in a bath coming together and merging into one. I don't know if you were expecting something more dramatic than this but there is no reason to suggest its a violent event.