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
About the Image
Id: | noaoann09005a |
Type: | Artwork |
Release date: | March 9, 2009 |
Related announcements: | noaoann09005 |
Size: | 851 x 400 px |
About the Object
Category: | Quasars and Black Holes |