There’s been a longstanding question about what happens when black holes collide. Scientists have debated this and many assumed there wouldn’t be much that occurred. That was until NASA’s Fermi Gamma ray telescope witnessed something completely different. There was a high level of energy light that formed a second after a pair of black holes collided in space.
As scientists often do, they want to study more mergers of black holes to determine if this was a fluke, or if this remains the constant of what to expect. This isn’t the first item that has ever been reported by two colliding black holes either. In February, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory reported gravitational wave changes when a similar event occurred. Their belief is that the flash of light energy was the results of fast moving material, rather than the collision of the black holes themselves.
While both sides of the debate are far from admitting which theory is the correct one, neither denies that something does indeed happen. At this point, it will take more research to ultimately determine which theory will be regarded as fact, and which will be placed into a long line of misconceptions.
In fact, both sides are even willing to agree that there is a possibility that a system malfunction that coincided with the even could have potentially caused the experience that was had. If a few more occurrences are captured with similar results, it is likely that a definite conclusion will be reached.
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