At the heart of this distant galaxy lies not one, but two jet-busting black holes

dark orange and brown gas swirls in a disk around a black orb, which spews bright red gas upward. to its left, a smaller black point shoots a light gas upward too.

A binary black hole system in an active galaxy about 4 billion light-years away has been seen to brighten dramatically as one of the black holes plowed through the accretion disk of the other, briefly creating a double quasar. A quasar is the extremely active core of a distant galaxy. This activity is the product … Read more