Schematic representation (IMAGE)

National Radio Astronomy Observatory

Schematic representation

Caption

Schematic representation of the most important stages and critical physical mechanisms driving the merger of two supermassive black holes and their corresponding representative time and spatial scales.

Credit

José Utreras/Ezequiel Treister, Center for Astrophysics and Associated Technologies (CATA); Michael Koss (Eureka Scientific), et al.

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