Astronomers Detect Orbital Motion in Pair of Supermassive Black Holes

Tuesday, June 27, 2017 - 16:42 in Astronomy & Space

Using VLBA telescope, astronomers have made the first detection of orbital motion in a pair of supermassive black holes in a galaxy some 750 million light-years from Earth.

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