Date: 27/06/2014 17:23:53
From: CrazyNeutrino
ID: 552036
Subject: Three Supermassive Black Holes Tango in a Distant Galaxy, Marking a Huge Discovery
Three Black Holes Mark Huge Discovery
In a galaxy four billion light-years away, three supermassive black holes are locked in a whirling embrace. It’s the tightest trio of black holes known to date and even suggests that these closely packed systems are more common than previously thought.
“What remains extraordinary to me is that these black holes, which are at the very extreme of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, are orbiting one another at 300 times the speed of sound on Earth,” said lead author Roger Deane from the University of Cape Town in a press release.
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