---
title: "Colliding black holes could warp space-time itself"
description: "Prominent scientists discover two black holes colliding, possibly releasing energy comparable to 100 million supernova explosions."
date: "2015-01-15"
modified: "2015-08-13"
authors:
  - name: "Alex Klokus"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/alex-klokus"
url: "https://futurism.com/colliding-black-holes-could-warp-space-time-itself"
categories:
  - "Astrophysics"
  - "Black Holes"
  - "Space"
tags:
  - "space"
---

# Colliding black holes could warp space-time itself

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- Scientists have theorized that an unusual light signal they're seeing from quasar PG 1302-102 -- essentially a black hole emitting light from the superheated particles swirling around its gravitational drain -- is being caused by the cosmic dance between two black holes in the system, each located less than the length of our solar system apart.
- If the theory is correct, the collision would rip apart the galaxy in which they're floating and release gravitational waves, ripples in the fabric of space-time predicted by Einstein's theory of general relativity
- Unfortunately, astronomers hoping to witness such an event are out of luck, as the predicted union won't take place for about another million years -- a long time in human standards, but not cosmic ones.

### Author social links  
[LinkedIn](<https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexklokus>)