Cosmoview Episode 72: Gemini South Captures Cosmic ‘Cotton Candy’
Gemini South, one half of the International Gemini Observatory operated by NSF’s NOIRLab, captures the billion-year-old aftermath of a double 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.
Credit:International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
Image and Videos: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF NOIRLab), J. Miller (International Gemini Observatory/NSF NOIRLab), M. Rodriguez (International Gemini Observatory/NSF NOIRLab), M. Zamani (NSF NOIRLab), J. Pollard
Music: Stellardrone — In Time
About the Video
| Id: | noirlab2329b |
| Release date: | Oct. 25, 2023, 11 a.m. |
| Related releases: | noirlab2329 |
| Duration: | 49 s |
| Frame rate: | 29.97 |
