HTTP:: Supermassive Black Hole Collision Imaged
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In a groundbreaking, new image, astronomers and astrophysicists will finally have the opportunity to study one of the rarest events in the observed Universe, namely the collision and merger of two black holes. While it may be that the current generation, and many others after it, will not live to see it, the data collected so far is enough to run computer simulations on what “monstrosity†will be generated once the merger is complete, Wired reports. The two supermassive black holes, which were previously imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope, are located at the core of the galaxy NGC 6240. The formation is located some 3,000 light-years away, and Hubble was used to snap an optical-wavelength photo of it. Recently, employing NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers managed to obtain a new view of the galaxy's core, this time in X-ray wavelengths. The data from the two observatories was then combined to create an amazing composite picture that showed the inner wor!
kings of NGC 6240 in great detail. Astronomers don't yet know when this will happen, but they are convinced that the two black holes are heading straight for each other, and believe that they will eventually merge into a single, even more massive one. These monsters can grow to be anywhere between hundreds of thousands to billio...
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