Tag: collision
Newly-discovered closest pair of supermassive blackholes are on course for collision
Astronomers observed the pair using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope, with the newly discovered neighbors taking top spot in proximity to Earth and each other, cutting the previous record holders’ distance in half. Don’t panic, though: the history-making super-supermassive blackhole collision is still around 250 million years away, so it’s probably one for our cyborg successors to watch out for… #news #trending #currentevents…
Nasa puts spacecraft on collision course with asteroid to test possible Earth defence system
Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube A spacecraft designed to deflect an asteroid from its course was launched from the US state of California on November 23, 2021. Nasa’s DART spacecraft was carried into space aboard a SpaceX-owned Falcon 9 rocket, and put on course for crashing into the asteroid in September 2022. The US space agency says the mission is a…