Fortunately, the couple of supermassive black holes discovered by astronomers using the Very Large Telescope in Chile are still 89 million light years away from us in the galaxy NGC 7727.
But while it's a comfortable distance, it's much closer than the previous record for a supermassive black hole pair, which is 470 million light years distant. .
"The small separation and velocity of the two black holes indicate that they will merge into one monster black hole, probably within the next 250 million years," adds co-author Holger Baumgardt from the University of Queensland in Australia.