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This gorgeous pair of overlapping edge-on galaxies, called NGC 6670, glows in the infrared with more than a hundred billion times the luminosity of our sun. Scientists think that NGC 6670 has already experienced at least one close encounter and is now in the early stages of a second.
NGC 6240 is a peculiar, butterfly- or lobster-shaped galaxy consisting of two smaller merging galaxies. The galaxies, which lie in the constellation of Ophiuchus, the Serpent Holder, some 400 million light-years away, are expected to complete their merger in tens to hundreds of millions of years. As they do, two giant black holes will drift toward one another and eventually merge together into a larger black hole, scientists say.
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I want to see what happens when two black holes merge....