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Not one but two jet-bursting black holes lie at the heart of this distant galaxy

A binary black hole system in an active galaxy about 4 billion light-years away was seen to brighten dramatically when one of the black holes briefly formed the accretion disk of the other into a double star. quasar. A quasar is the extremely active core of a distant galaxy. This activity is a product of… Read More »