Thursday, July 6, 2017

Astronomers detect orbital motion in pair of supermassive black holes

07/06/2017 06:39 PM EDT

artist's conception of the pair of supermassive black holes

Images made with the continent-wide Very Long Baseline Array detect the orbital motion of two supermassive black holes as they circle each other at the center of a distant galaxy.


Full story at https://public.nrao.edu/news/supermassive-black-holes-motion/

Source
National Radio Astronomy Observatory


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