The world is waiting for an amazing performance. A galaxy in the constellation Bootes will witness the merger of two black holes. These occurrences won’t be terrible, thanks to science.
Such an event will produce a huge gravitational wave, as well as a flash in the sky. A distortion of space-time is a gravitational wave. In other words, time starts to slow down or turn around while space “pulses.” Since this has never happened before, no one is aware of how it actually seems.
On occasion, although very rarely, gravitational waves reach Earth.
One billion light-years separate us from the relevant galaxy. The fact that the occurrence won’t be terrible is advantageous.
In the center of this distant galaxy, there are two black holes that orbit each other. Despite having a mass that is roughly 800 million times greater than that of the Sun, they are extremely small by cosmic standards—their total radius is less than that of the Earth’s orbit. Black holes move closer before slipping away. As they get closer, there is a brief flash.
Following these lights for a very long time, astronomers have found that the frequency of the flashes is rising.
An outbreak of this kind used to happen once a year until recently. Now, it happens once a month. Indicating that the tiny black hole is encroaching on the bigger one.
When will that happen? It’s challenging to say. Some astronomers predict that the merger will be finished in a thousand days. That is, it will either happen this year or the following.
According to N.A.S.A’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, these two black holes are currently more than 99 percent of the way to colliding, taking into account the many millions of years they have likely been orbiting one another. This actually refers to a collision 10,000 years from now.
The sky will briefly flare, and Earthlings will notice it (normally this galaxy is not visible to the naked eye). On the probable effects, one can only speculate. The strongest disaster that is only possible in our universe is the merging of two black holes.
Soucre: blog.physics-astronomy.com
