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)

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Release date:Feb. 29, 2024, noon
Related releases:noirlab2405
Duration:01 m 27 s
Frame rate:29.97

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