NOIRLab noirlab2329: Gemini South Captures Cosmic ‘Cotton Candy’ — Chaotic jumble of merging spiral galaxies hints at possible fate of Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies. Gemini South, one half of the International Gemini Observatory operated by NSF’s NOIRLab, captures the billion-year-old aftermath of a spiral galaxy collision. At the heart of this chaotic interaction, entwined and caught in the midst of the chaos, is a …

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Gemini South Captures Cosmic ‘Cotton Candy’
25 Oct. 2023 — NOIRLab Photo Release noirlab2329

Gemini South, one half of the International Gemini Observatory operated by NSF’s NOIRLab, captures the billion-year-old aftermath of a spiral galaxy collision. At the heart of this chaotic interaction, entwined and caught in the midst of the chaos, is a pair of supermassive black holes — the closest such pair ever recorded from Earth.

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