toobfreak
Tungsten/Glass Member
Right, and now we get to watch it happen. Will one of them be thrown clear? Do you know? No? Then shut up and watch.They combine into a bigger black hole. It’s happened a billions of times before, and will happen billions of times more.
Actually, it has already happened, like a billion years ago. Back when man was nothing but a multi-cellular creature just beginning the first specialized cells before even the first animals appeared.
These black holes are actually quasars, or more accurately, AGN (active galactic nuclei), The Sloan Digital Sky Survey doesn't seem particularly friendly towards casual searches by the public, but being that SDSS J084905.51+111447.2 is actually the RA and DEC coordinates for where they are, and being that none of these articles on the event are even cogent enough to mention the constellation this is in, I tracked it down the hard, old school way.
If anyone wants to try to observe the merger of these black holes, I believe they are these three galaxies HERE:
They should be visible in a good 18-25" backyard telescope in a dark location. Where are these galaxies? They are not far from NGC2678, a very minor star cluster HERE (with galaxies again narrowed in red):
And just where is THAT you ask? It is actually in the foot of the constellation Cancer the Crab, not far from the very doable object M67 which can be found in a small telescope,
And you can see that part of the sky rising this late winter, early Spring.