Image: An artist’s conception of the late-stage galaxy merger and its two central black holes. ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO); M. Weiss (NRAO/AUI/NSF)
Source: College of Liberal Arts and Sciences news feature
Scientists Find Black Holes Tangled in Cosmic Dance
Adark secret has been uncovered: Not one, but two supermassive black holes hide in the dusty chaos of a pair of merging galaxies. The colossal duo swirls together at the heart of the collision, a mere 750 light-years apart. While the distance may sound like a far stretch, it’s the first time that scientists have observed two of these monstrous objects in multiple wavelengths at such close proximity to one another. As the Milky Way galaxy faces an impending merger with neighboring Andromeda, the findings offer a revolutionary chance to explore our own fate. Read more ->