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Supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy may have a friend

  • Written by Smadar Naoz, Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles
An artist's conception of two black holes entwined in a gravitational tango.NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Christopher Go

Do supermassive black holes have friends? The nature of galaxy formation suggests that the answer is yes, and in fact, pairs of supermassive black holes should be common in the universe.

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