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When Black Holes Collide

A merican astronomers have captured a pair of supermassive black holes poised to undergo an extreme collision. The black holes lurk at the centre of a cluster of galaxies, Abel 400. At the moment the two black holes in Abel 400 are widely separated, each surrounded by a vast accretion disc of gas and dust. For this picture, though, I imagined the scenario in several billion years, when the holes reside in a single disk and are about to collide.