Elusive Binary Black Hole System Identified

Finding a needle in a haystack might be easy compared to finding two very similar black holes closely orbiting each other in a distant galaxy. Astronomers from the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) in Tucson have found what looks like two massive black holes orbiting each other in the center of one galaxy.

Credit:

NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Marenfeld

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Release date:March 9, 2009
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