Cosmoview Episode 76: Astronomers Measure Heaviest Black Hole Pair Ever Found
Using archival data from the Gemini North telescope, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, operated by NSF’s NOIRLab, a team of astronomers have measured the heaviest pair of supermassive black holes ever found. The merging of two supermassive black holes is a phenomenon that has long been predicted, though never observed. This massive pair gives clues as to why such an event seems so unlikely in the Universe.
Credit:Images and Videos: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. daSilva/M. Zamani, ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser), N. Bartmann
Music: zero project - The Lower Dungeons (zero-project.gr)
About the Video
Id: | noirlab2405a |
Release date: | Feb. 29, 2024, noon |
Related releases: | noirlab2405 |
Duration: | 01 m 27 s |
Frame rate: | 29.97 |