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DescriptionBlack Hole Merger.jpg	English: This illustration shows a stage in the merger of two galaxies that forms a single galaxy with two centrally located supermassive black holes surrounded by disks of hot gas. The black holes orbit each other for hundreds of millions of years before they merge to form a single supermassive black hole that sends out intense gravitational waves. Français : Vue d'artiste de deux trous noirs fusionnant Latviešu: Mākslinieka zīmējums, kurā attēlota divu melno caurumu saplūšana Magyar: Két szupermasszív fekete lyuk ugyanabban a galaxisban
Source	http://chandra.harvard.edu/resources/illustrations/quasar.html (image link)
Author	NASA/CXC/A.Hobart

Note: video simulation of actual black hole mergers also available - see Category:GW150914.

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