Below: Equal sized Black Holes (<15% Ratio) DO NOT MERGE ! (LIGO ) even SMBHs.
Below: according to Q-FFF Theory:
All Black Holes attract distant matter, into a plasma disc, or Plasma Tail ( see travelling Tadpole BHs) but do not consume but even REPEL close by matter.
New plasma is even created at the Penrose-Q-FFF "Trapped space Horizon" or light horizon and transferred to two perpendicular jets, or one plasma tail.
Plasma is created out of the virtual compressed vacuum particles in action as an opposite virtual vacuum (AXION transforming) particle collider.
Below: a Micro Black hole ball lightning with a self produced plasma tail.