NASA shares pics of supermassive black holes merging, netizens say 'absolutely stunning'

NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory recently shared ims of two supermassive black holes in process of merging toger. While taking to Instagram, US ncy said that Galaxy NGC 6240 contains two black holes that are believed to have started merging some 30 million years ago. This im of NGC 6240 contains new X-ray data from Chandra - shown in red, orange, and yellow - that has been combined with an optical im from Hubble Telescope originally released in 2008, US ncy said.  

In caption, NASA’s observatory said that two “bright dots” near centre of im are just 3,000 light-years apart. Eventually, two black holes will drift toger, forming a larger black hole millions of years from w. According to an official blog post, scientists think that se black holes are in such close proximity because y are in midst of spiralling toward each or. 

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It is also thought that pairs of massive black holes can explain some of unusual behaviour seen by rapidly growing supermassive black holes, such as distortion and bending seen in powerful jets y produce. Furr, pairs of massive black holes in process of merging are expected to be most powerful source of gravitational waves in Universe, NASA said. In blog, US ncy wrote, “ formation of multiple systems of supermassive black holes should be common in Universe since many galaxies undergo collisions and mergers with or galaxies, most of which contain supermassive black holes”. 

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Netizens call it ‘phemenal’ 

Since being shared, post has accumulated over 25,000 likes and garnered several comments from internet users. While one user called ims “truly amazing,” ar user simply wrote, “So divine”. “One user jokingly wrote, “n future humans will be able to hear 'boop' that comes out from merger”. Ar ded, “Omg.. everything happens in universe out re s pretty much way beyond human brains can process those time lapses”. “So pretty AND awesome,” ded fourth. 

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