Gravitational lensing technique unveils supermassive black hole pairs - Phys.org
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Gravitational lensing technique unveils supermassive black hole pairs - Phys.org

Source:Phys.Org
Author:Max Planck Society

Supermassive black hole binaries form naturally when galaxies merge, but scientists have only confidently observed a very few of these systems that are widely separated. Black hole binaries that closely orbit each other have not yet been measured. In a paper …