A Pair of Black Holes Hiding Right Under our Noses!
Using the Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers recently made an incredible discovery: not just one, but two powerful objects at the centre of a nearby galaxy that have so much material packed into a small region that not even light can escape their gravitational pull! These objects are called Super-massive Black Holes.
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NASA/CXC/SAO/G.Fabbiano et al
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