An artist's conception of the two supermassive black holes that orbit each other every 100 years. The findings were published in the journal NatureFrom The Daily Mail:
Two colossal black holes appear to be orbiting one another in sort of a cosmic minuet at the centre of a faraway galaxy formed when two separate galaxies collided, U.S. astronomers said.
These two so-called supermassive black holes, which are celestial objects with enormous gravitational pull, are locked in orbit about 5 billion light years away from Earth, the scientists said. A light year is about 6 trillion miles, or the distance light travels in a year.
Read more ....
No comments:
Post a Comment