Colossal Black Holes Locked in Dance at Heart of Galaxy

Two supermassive black holes were discovered 9 billion light-years away, at the heart of the galaxy. The objects appear to be orbiting around each other every two years as if caught in a cosmic waltz. Their spiral movement disturbs the fabric of space and time, sending out gravitational waves and decreasing the distance between the objects. In merely ten thousand years, the collision is expected to shake time and space.

Dr Przemysław Mróz from the Astronomical Observatory, University of Warsaw, is a co-founder of two supermassive black holes in the centre of a quasar.

An animation of the supermassive black holes surrounded by an accretion disc. In addition, a jet that is shooting out at near the speed of light is presented. Credit: Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC).

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