Orbiting Supermassive Black Holes (IMAGE)

California Institute of Technology

Orbiting Supermassive Black Holes

Caption

This artist's concept shows two candidate supermassive black holes at the heart of a quasar called PKS 2131-021. In this view of the system, gravity from the foreground black hole (right) can be seen twisting and distorting the light of its companion, which has a powerful jet. Each black hole is about a hundred million times the mass of our sun, with the black hole in the foreground being slightly less massive.

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Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC)

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