Astronomers have spotted two supermassive black holes feasting on the cosmic material of two merging galaxies in distant space. This phenomenon is the closest to colliding black holes we have ever seen. One of the black holes is around 200 million times the mass of our Sun. And the other is a bit smaller – only 125 million times larger. But what would their collision mean to us? #brightside Credit: Binary Black Holes: By NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Jeremy Schnittman and Brian P. Powell, https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13831 By NASA: Space Triangle: https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2022/galaxy-collision-creates-space-triangle-in-new-hubble-image Black Holes: https://www.nasa.gov/jpl/wise/black-holes-20131203i.html spin: By NASA/CXC/Univ of Michigan/R.C.Reis et al; NASA/STScI – http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2014/rxj1131/, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=32532593 By NASA/AEI/ZIB/M. Koppitz and L. Rezzolla: merger simulation 001: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=42298189 merger simulation 083: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=42298697 merger simulation 149: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=42298971 merger simulation 190: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=42299270 Near colliding: By NASA/ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI), https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3603786 simulation: By NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and STAG Research Centre/Peter Hammond, https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14209 Accretion Disk: By NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Jeremy Schnittman, https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13326 M87-full: By Credits: NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA); Acknowledgment: P. Cote (Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics) and E. Baltz (Stanford University), https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=63524594 a Black Hole: By NASA/CXC/Villanova University/J. Neilsen, https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/news/2019/4/19/how-scientists-captured-the-first-image-of-a-black-hole/ stations of EHT: By The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, CC BY 3.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=77916273 CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0: By NASA Hubble Space Telescope: Gravitational Wave: https://flic.kr/p/T9jeBJ, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=70818485 Galaxy Cluster: https://flic.kr/p/23xF1MF, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=87486761 CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0: By ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO): ACA: http://www.eso.org/public/images/ann13040a/, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25950276 Antennae Galaxies: http://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1137a/, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16877639 Merging Galaxies: By ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Chandar – https://esawebb.org/images/potm2210c/, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=125786808 By EHT Collaboration: M87: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso2105a/, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=102736603 Messier 87: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1907a/, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=77916527 Animation is created by Bright Side. —————————————————————————————- Music by Epidemic Sound https://www.epidemicsound.com Check our Bright Side podcast on Spotify and leave a positive review! https://open.spotify.com/show/0hUkPxD34jRLrMrJux4VxV Subscribe to Bright Side: https://goo.gl/rQTJZz —————————————————————————————- Our Social Media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brightside Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brightside.official TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@brightside.official?lang=en Stock materials (photos, footages and other): https://www.depositphotos.com https://www.shutterstock.com https://www.eastnews.ru —————————————————————————————- For more videos and articles visit: http://www.brightside.me
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