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Two Black Holes to Merge

Posted by timothy on from the which-ceo-gets-to-stay dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Astronomers have discovered two supermassive black holes that they predict will eventually collide. As they say in bad SF, 'it could warp the fabric of space.'"

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  1. Or, as in they say in poorly written articles... by Romothecus · · Score: 5, Informative

    EVERYTHING WITH MASS WARPS SPACE. The more massive it is, the more it warps space. Black holes warp space so much it "tears," for lack of a better term. Two black holes combining into one huge black hole isn't going to do anything that they wouldn't do otherwise.

  2. What it wouldn't do otherwise. by Christopher+Thomas · · Score: 5, Informative

    Two black holes combining into one huge black hole isn't going to do anything that they wouldn't do otherwise. ...Except releasing gravity waves of strong enough magnitude to be detected from great distances.

    Magnitude matters.