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Supermassive Black Holes ‘Waltzing’ Through Space

An image of the galaxy COSMOS J100043.15+020637.2. The tidal tail of stars, gas, and dust shows that this galaxy recently merged with another galaxy, which brought two supermassive black holes into this galaxy. (NASA/ASA)

Our galaxy will soon (3 billion years) get into the universal dance party and join the other 33 known galaxies containing a pair of supermassive black holes — we will, of course, be annihilated. Scientists with Berkeley unveiled new research showing that the phenomenon is actually much more common than once thought. The numbers [...more]

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Jan 05 2010
By Nick Upton