Two Black Holes Are Destined To Collide
- 9 years ago
New research appears to confirm that two black holes, currently orbiting one another in a distant quasar—and prompting NASA to employ multiple dancing metaphors—are in fact primed to collide in about 100,000 years.
Two black holes are on a collision course in a million or so years.
Officially, the candidate black hole collision pair is known as PG 1302-102.
They were initially identified via ground-based telescopes earlier this year and appear to tightly orbit one another closer than any other potential pair yet observed.
Researchers made the discovery after noticing a quasar with a particularly strange flicker. Sometimes the light appears brighter; sometimes fainter.
Further examination revealed the two fully orbit one another every 5 years. It was then theoriz
Two black holes are on a collision course in a million or so years.
Officially, the candidate black hole collision pair is known as PG 1302-102.
They were initially identified via ground-based telescopes earlier this year and appear to tightly orbit one another closer than any other potential pair yet observed.
Researchers made the discovery after noticing a quasar with a particularly strange flicker. Sometimes the light appears brighter; sometimes fainter.
Further examination revealed the two fully orbit one another every 5 years. It was then theoriz