A picture of the quasar 3C 186, taken by the Hubble House Telescope
NASA’s Goddard House Flight Heart
A uncommon collision between two supermassive black holes (SMBH) seems to have despatched the ensuing merger rushing by means of the universe, making it one of many fastest-moving black holes we’ve ever seen.
Astronomers have lengthy puzzled over how the gargantuan black holes on the centres of galaxies can develop to be so giant. One potential route is for smaller – however nonetheless extraordinarily huge – black holes to merge collectively, however there was little direct proof of this taking place.