Updated: December 15, 2020 1:22:47 PM
supermassive black holes are the largest types of black holes, which are millions of times more massive than the Sun.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has recently shared images of two supermassive black holes merging and has received a lot of comments on social media.
The official Instagram account of NASA’s X-ray Observatory Chandra shared a couple of images showing two supermassive black holes in the process of melting.
According to the message, the black holes, located in the Galaxy NGC 6240, are separated by 3,000 light-years and will drift together to form a larger black hole millions of years from now.
According to a post on the observatory blog, the fusion process began about 30 million years ago
The blog post also states that pairs of massive black holes in the process of melting are expected to be the most powerful sources of gravitational waves in the Universe.
The Chandra X-ray Observatory is a telescope specially designed to detect X-ray emissions from very hot regions of the universe such as exploded stars, galaxy clusters, and matter around black holes.
With an orbit of 139,000 km in space, the telescope was launched aboard the space shuttle Columbia during the STS-93 by NASA in 1999.
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For the uninitiated, supermassive black holes are the largest types of black holes, which are millions of times more massive than the Sun.
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