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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. 'it could warp the fabric of space.' by E1v!$ · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yea, right. I have several billion electrons right here warping the fabric of space.

    Who the hell thinks this crap up?

  2. Already happened by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Keep in mind that the further out we look in space, the further into the past we are seeing. Since these black holes are 400 million light-years away, we are seeing them as they were 400 million years ago, and the researchers are predicting that they'll merge in a few hundred million years, which means they collided a hundred million years ago or so. Humans (or whatever species we evolve into) will most likely be extinct long before the light from the collision reaches us hundreds of millions of years from now.