Two black holes located in the galaxy SDSS J1430+2303located 1,000 million light years from Earth, they are on a collision course and the shock will be felt on our planet in 2025.
According to the report published on the website of Astro Adventureon a cosmic scale, three years means that the impact between black holes will be imminent and could go down in history as one of the great modern astronomical events.
The collision between these black holes would reach a combined mass of around 200 million suns. The event arouses the interest of the scientific community because it will make it possible to study how the holes increase in size, how they originate new cosmic structures and other phenomena.
It would be the second time that this phenomenon has been recorded, after an identical shock was generated in 2016. On that occasion, the observatories LIGO, Virgo Y GEO600 announced the first detection of gravitational waves produced by the merger of two black holes.
The mysteries of the galaxy SDSS J1430+2303
SDSS J1430+2303 is an elliptical galaxy, with an accumulated mass of 150 billion suns and that has an active galactic nucleus, which is experiencing a periodic variability in permanent acceleration.
Scientists believe that black holes, near the melting point, they could dock and unleash an impressive flow of energy even before the end of this year.
The variations in the X-ray light emitted by the galaxy and the emission associated with the iron would be indicating with a confidence level of 99.96 percent that the phenomenon corresponds to the imminent collision between supermassive black holes.
The researchers cannot yet determine with certainty whether the phenomenon that is happening in the heart of the analyzed galaxy is really the scenario prior to the collision. They indicated that it is essential to continue observing the strange galaxy SDSS J1430+2303, to see if the event can be conclusively identified.