Black Holes in Space

Some 9 billion light-years away in the universe, two gargantuan black holes are revolving around one another, – and rather ominously. This is a dance that won’t last forever. Around 10,000 years from now, the pair will collide. They’ll merge into a single deafening abyss with a force immense enough to warp the fabric of space and time with an eruption of ripples.

Each supermassive void is so unfathomably huge, our minds can barely comprehend their heft and reach. They’re hundreds of millions of times the mass of our sun, yet quite close together on a relative cosmic scale, — separated by about 50 times the distance between Earth and Pluto.

For context, a black hole merely half the size of a golf ball would have a mass equivalent to our entire planet.