Close up of apocalyptic scenes of two world clusters

The two black "monsters" swallowing the mass of surrounding matter are the final image of the merger making the planetary systems of the first two steps into the end of the world.

Science has long proved that our end of the world will eventually have to happen, due to the destruction of the sun or the anticipated collision of - where we live - and the neighboring galaxy Andromeda for several billion years.

Close-up of NGC 6240 and the enlarged image of two black holes merging in the center - (photo: NASA & ESA).

But you can see before that apocalypse through a similar incident published by the authors of the University of Maryland (USA) in their study. Using state-of-the-art equipment, they captured the apocalyptic close-up of the two world clusters, the two galaxies located in the constellation Ophiuchus.

The photos depict the final moments of the apocalypse, when two supermassive black holes in the nucleus of two galaxies merged together, swallowing a myriad of surrounding matter. It turns into the central black hole of NGC 6240, a galaxy bred from the remains of two old galaxies after a fiery collision and then merged together.

To obtain these images, the scientists collected images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and Keck Observatory in Hawaii (USA), along with some other data from NASA and ESA (European Agency). Europe). They then used a state-of-the-art adaptive optical technology called "transforming mirror" , sharpening images, increasing resolution.

Numerous galaxies contain traces of another galaxy's "ghost" in the center, where two black holes are merging - (photo: NASA & ESA).

According to lead author Michael Koss, an astrophysicist who works for Californina's scientific research company Eureka Scientific, it is the messy core that reveals to them that NGC 6240 is not a mere galaxy. Through test steps, they identified that core as two giant black holes in the merger phase.

In conventional central galaxies will be a giant black hole, larger than other black holes in the galaxy. The team also surveyed 384 other galaxies at an average of 330 million light-years from us and found that 17% of these galaxies have a central black hole that the black hole is merging.

The good news is that the merger brings not only the end of the world. An earlier study based on data from the European Space Agency (ESA) found that the Milky Way itself also experienced a collision and merger with about 10 billion years ago. The merger could kill many worlds but also give birth to many planetary systems and new worlds, including our world.