Potential Supermassive Black Hole Collision Spotted by Astronomers: Here's What Could Happen
Astronomers spotted two supermassive black holes. Learn more about how they could possibly collide with each other.
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Astronomers spotted two supermassive black holes. Learn more about how they could possibly collide with each other.
Using a suite of space- and ground-based telescopes, including two Maunakea Observatories in Hawaiʻi – W. M. Keck Observatory and Gemini North – the researchers found the pair of black holes embedded within two galaxies that merged when the universe was just 3 billion years young.
Initially, the team assumed the data was from a single quasar that had been distorted by the gravitational lens, making it appear to be two.
Quasars alone are limited and rare, what more are Twin Quasars which the Hubble Telescope recently discovered.