This is NGC 6240, you can see Chandra (here in red, orange and yellow) and this pic is muy importante because in 2002 scientists realized that they'd discovered two black holes on course to collide!!! So the two hole are only like, 3,000 light years or so apart (thats not very much at all!!) and they started heading toward one another about 30 Million years ago. Scientists think the two are spiraling toward one another and will eventually merge in about 50-100 million years from now!! I wanna know what happens when these two exotic objects interact with one another. Supermassive black holes are formed all the time and many galaxies undergo collisions or merges with other galaxies all the time, we've just ever witnessed it in progress. Cool right? Well, to my no readers let me just say this, Con Law today is boring my face off...
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