More Evidence for Coming Black Hole Collision (total mass > a billion suns)

NYTimes ^ | 9/16/15 | Dennis Overbye

[katana]

Considering the distance from our little near empty spiral arm outskirts location in our galaxy the collision already happened, about 3.5 billion years ago. The news (light) is just reaching us now. It will interesting to see if there’s a resulting visible-with-the-naked-human-eye light show from that other galaxy having gone phtttt-kaboom!!! Based on what was observed when light from the Crab Nebula explosion reached Earth, it might be quite spectacular.

[LibWhacker]

Space, ostensibly a very light and ethereal thing, is very, very difficult to bend or get waving.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

It’s all relative.

[Behind the Blue Wall]

Yup that was mentioned in the article.

[RansomOttawa]

Their merger, the astronomers calculated, could release as much energy as 100 million supernova explosions, mostly in the form of violent ripples in space-time known as gravitational waves that would blow the stars out of that hapless galaxy like leaves off a roof.

Oh no, run!

[Vermont Lt]

Bitchin’.

Too bad we cannot figure how to surf those waves.

[Arlis]

Hadn’t even thought of it that way.......but I’m sure the lefties would agree with you.......

[pgkdan]

The apocalypse is still on, apparently — at least in a galaxy about 3.5 billion light-years from here.

So this happened as long ago as 3.5 billion years?

[LibWhacker]

Correct.

[LonePalm]

Michelle is speaking?

"Ceterum censeo 0bama esse delendam."

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)