Two giant black holes might crash into each other in 21 years

Geek.com ^ | 5/23/15 | Ryan Whitwam

[Jack Hydrazine]

[Cobra64]

That’s racist.

[Jack Hydrazine]

[headstamp 2]

Already happening in Baltimore.

This article is racist.

[Jack Hydrazine]

How do you flatter a black hole?
Tell it that it sucks.

[Thumper1960]

Black Ho’s colliding happen every day and night in Bal’more.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

I was just thinking about 1964 and a beautiful girl named Elaine. Or was it about Leslie, also in 1964? I would have married her on the spot.

Can I go back, please?

PS: Don’t tell my wife. She thinks I’m already crazy.

[Wilhelm Tell]

This is fantastic. We are actually predicting what we can see 21 years in our future that actually happened billions of years ago. We are predicting the past. Mind blowing.

[LibWhacker]

Interesting you should ask that. I was thinking along similar lines; namely, could gravitational waves spreading out in spacetime be so powerful that they would kill you if you were close enough to the source of the commotion? Never mind the EM radiation, etc. We’re just talking about the gravity waves alone here.

I’m guessing yes, inasmuch as tidal forces - which are due to gravity - near a black hole can rip you apart. But to my pea-sized brain, time seems like it might complicate the picture a little bit and give us an “out.”

Likewise, how large would merging supermassive black holes have to be [in order for the gravity waves generated by their merging] to kill you clear across the universe? I’m guessing dozens, maybe hundreds (though that much mass probably doesn’t exist in the universe, observable or not), of orders of magnitude larger than these two supermassive black holes.

[17th Miss Regt]

After the first time, who’s counting?

[Jack Hydrazine]

There’s somebody counting!

[Newtoidaho]

It would say “2 giant black a-holes” if it were about the Obozos.

[Hoosier-Daddy]

Wherein both people have infinite “Gravitas”?

[sargon]

Scientists believe the pair are going to crash into each other in just 21 years

No, but in about 21 years, we might see if the two black holes in question indeed crashed into each other about 10.5 billion years ago...

[Smokin' Joe]

We are actually predicting what we can see 21 years in our future that actually happened billions of years ago. We are predicting the past.

Yep. My thoughts, too.

[Prov1322]

#BlackHolesMatter

[SunkenCiv]

Just be sure to always carry your camera phone, get some footage of the legion.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Red Badger.

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