Supermassive cosmic merger
Take a look at today's Astronomy Picture of the Day (photo on the left). These two black holes collision is extremely dangerous because it will create a super-supermassive black hole capable of swallowing material equal to "billions of stars". According to the report back in 2002, BBC predicted:
The black holes are orbiting each other and will collide and merge to create an even larger black hole - resulting in a catastrophic event that will unleash intense radiation and gravitational waves.[...]We are doomed! We'll be eaten up by a super massive blackhole!
Over the course of the next few hundred million years, the two black holes in NGC 6240, which are about 3,000 light-years apart, will drift towards one another and merge to form an even larger supermassive black hole.
Towards the end of this process, an enormous burst of gravitational waves.
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