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A popular approach in numerical simulations of black hole binaries is to model black holes as punctures in the fabric of spacetime. The location and the properties of the black hole punctures are tracked with apparent horizons, namely outermost marginally outer trapped surfaces (MOTSs). As the holes approach each other, a common apparent horizon suddenly appears, engulfing the two black holes and signaling the merger. The evolution of common apparent horizons and their connection with gravitational wave emission have been studied in detail with the framework of dynamical horizons. We present a study of the dynamics of the MOTSs and their punctures in the interior of the final black hole. The study focuses on head-on mergers for various initial separations and mass ratios. We find that MOTSs intersect for most of the parameter space. We show that for those situations in which they do not, it is because of the singularity avoidance property of the moving puncture gauge condition used in the study. Although we are unable to carry out evolutions that last long enough to show the ultimate fate of the punctures, our results suggest that MOTSs always intersect and that at late times their overlap is only partial. As a consequence, the punctures inside the MOTSs, although close enough to each other to act effectively as a single puncture, do not merge.
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