<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7a20c2cd-5fe2-4829-a6b4-184b2ce7cdcd/E71E5128-FF9F-4209-B72E-D147FE7BE8B2/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://dsc.discovery.com/space/big-pic/supermassive-black-hole-death-match.html" href="http://dsc.discovery.com/space/big-pic/supermassive-black-hole-death-match.html" style="font-size: 11px;">dsc.discovery.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dsc.discovery.com/space/big-pic/supermassive-black-hole-death-match.html"><DIV class="subHeadline">In a few million years, in a galaxy far, far away, two black holes will collide, generating gravitational waves of epic proportions. Hold tight, this fight is about to get super-massive.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dsc.discovery.com/space/big-pic/supermassive-black-hole-death-match.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/dsc.discovery.com/img/249D8006-927D-4DE5-8A68-9BE03930BAD4" alt="supermassive black holes galaxy collision epic" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dsc.discovery.com/space/big-pic/supermassive-black-hole-death-match.html">In NGC 6240, a galaxy located 400 million light-years from the Milky Way, two <A href="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/06/10/black-hole-galaxy.html">supermassive black holes</A> are locked in a battle that will eventually end in a mammoth collision</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dsc.discovery.com/space/big-pic/supermassive-black-hole-death-match.html"><P>In fact, the collision of two supermassive black holes is as energetic as it can get, generating powerful ripples through the fabric of space. The two supermassive black holes in NGC 6240 are expected to merge as one super-supermassive black hole once the dust has eventually settled.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dsc.discovery.com/space/big-pic/supermassive-black-hole-death-match.html">ripples are <A href="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/07/01/quiet-big-bang.html">known as gravitational waves</A> </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dsc.discovery.com/space/big-pic/supermassive-black-hole-death-match.html"><P>In this striking image, optical light (<A href="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/slideshows/hubble-refurbished.html">from the Hubble Space Telescope</A>) and X-ray data (from <A href="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/slideshows/chandra-stephans-quintet.html">the Chandra X-ray Observatory</A>) have been combined, highlighting the two supermassive black holes as they stare at each other across the chaos of disturbed stars, dust and hot gas in the center of NGC 6240.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E71E5128-FF9F-4209-B72E-D147FE7BE8B2/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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