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Africa-Press – South-Sudan. <\/strong><\/span>The giant spiral galaxy NGC 7727 in the constellation of Aquarius was discovered in 1785 by British astronomer William Herschel. It has long been in the crosshairs of astronomers, but its supermassive black hole duo \u2013 predicted to merge into one millions of years from now \u2013 has long dodged detection.<\/p>\n

Two supermassive black holes close to our planet Earth were formed after a dramatic collision of two galaxies approximately a billion years ago, scientists assert, as they have released exciting new images of the pair.<\/p>\n

The black hole binary at a distance of some 90 million light-years away from Earth was discovered by a team of astronomers. They had been scrutinizing the galaxy merger designated as NGC 7727 using the Gemini South telescope perched on Cerro Pacho\u0301n mountain in the Chilean Andes.<\/p>\n

It should be noted that there is a specific reason why NGC 7727 (also known as LEDA 72060) attracts the attention of astronomers. They believe that the spiral galaxy has the potential of shedding light on the fallout from the collision of our home galaxy, the Milky Way, with the neighboring spiral galaxy Andromeda . This is on track to happen sometime in around 4.5 billion years. Furthermore, scientists are thrilled because this pair of supermassive black holes is the closest to our planet.<\/p>\n

The image of the spiral galaxy was captured thanks to the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS) on the Gemini South telescope. It shows swirling interstellar dust and gas “resembling freshly-spun cotton candy as they wrap around the merging cores of the progenitor galaxies,\u201d as per a statement by NOIRLab astronomers.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom the aftermath has emerged a scattered mix of active starburst regions and sedentary dust lanes encircling the system. It is estimated that the two will eventually merge into one in about 250 million years to form an even more massive black hole while dispersing violent ripples of gravitational waves across spacetime,\u201d the team said.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – South-Sudan. The giant spiral galaxy NGC 7727 in the constellation of Aquarius was discovered in 1785 by British astronomer William Herschel. It has long been in the crosshairs of astronomers, but its supermassive black hole duo \u2013 predicted to merge into one millions of years from now \u2013 has long dodged detection. 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