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If 2 black holes were close enough that their event horizons were overlapping, could things in that overlapped region escape those black holes?

When I first thought of this, I was imagining 2 black holes of the same size with their event horizon's overlapping. I was also thinking that for the sake of theory, it would be good to imagine that both black holes were pinned in place.
gpt
Horizons don't overlap, they merge. When two BHs get close, the horizons bulge towards eachother and a bridge forms. The single event horizon then relaxes into its final single-BH shape in a process known as "ring-down".