"Supermassive" Black Holes Found At Center Of Collapsing Galaxies
Scientists have pinpointed the precise locations of a pair of supermassive black holes at the centers of two colliding galaxies 300 million light-years away.
Infrared images made by the Keck II telescope in Hawaii reveal the two black holes at the center of the galaxy merger known as NGC 6240 are each surrounded by a rotating disk of stars and cloudy stellar nurseries.
space.com | Ker Than | May 19, 2007 09:15 AM