[LibWhacker]

Just when they turn up the ultimate gee-whiz fact about the universe, they find another one... The energy of 100 MILLION SUPERNOVAE!!! I wonder if there will ever be an end to such discoveries? I hope not (as long as none of them spells our doom!).

[E. Pluribus Unum]

If it’s 3.5 billion light years away from us, doesn’t that mean it happened 3.5 billion years ago and the light from the event is just now getting here?

[Dalberg-Acton]

Or maybe not.

[tanknetter]

3.5 Billion light years from here.

So already happened. A very, very, very long time ago.

We’re already dead, just don’t know it yet.

[Cats Pajamas]

Any chance of the black hole opening in D.C.?

[blueunicorn6]

I hope they have good insurance.

[fwdude]

A contrarian word of advice: Some galaxies are only 10 feet away, but are very, very tiny.

[Eric Pode of Croydon]

Bush’s fault.

[Bubba_Leroy]

Bush’s fault. Bush and those damned SUVs.

Womyn and minorities will be hardest hit.

[TexasCajun]

How do we know our universe with it's Galaxies and Black Holes is not already inside a Super-Dumper Colossus Black Hole?

[muir_redwoods]

I told you all this climate change was serious

[JimRed]

I wonder if there will ever be an end to such discoveries?

It will end with the discontinuation of tax money grants to "scientists" who make up or embellish scary, entertaining things with which to regale us. Like AGW/CO2.

[Steely Tom]

Advanced LIGO just came on-line for science operation four days ago, on 18 September 2015.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Black Hole collision...?

[ArcadeQuarters]

The most important question... how can we blame this on global warming?

[Defiant]

That prospect is nothing compared to what will happen when our universe bumps into another one.

[ShadowAce]

If the combined mass is greater than a billion suns, why is the energy only worth 100 million supernovae? Is only 1 mass in 10 gonna blow?

[PATRIOT1876]

...caused by global warming.../s

[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.

[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.