Over the course of the next few hundred million years, the two black holes in NGC 6240, which are about 3, 000 light-years apart, will drift towards one another and merge to form an even larger supermassive black hole.
Instead of a black hole taking energy in, he's a pulsar pumping it out in the form of pain relieved, at least for a while, by wry humor and an openness to Jane's beauty.