MPIfR: A Dance of Black Holes
Unique pair of supermassive black holes in an ordinary galaxy discovered by XMM-Newton
A pair of supermassive black holes in orbit around one another have been discovered by an international research team including Stefanie Komossa from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany. This is the first time such a pair could be found in an ordinary galaxy. They were discovered because they ripped apart a star when ESA’s space observatory XMM-Newton happened to be looking in their direction. ...
ESA: Unique Pair of Hidden Black Holes Discovered by XMM-Newton
A milliparsec supermassive black hole binary candidate in the galaxy SDSS J120136.02+300305.5 - F.K. Liu, Shuo Li, S. Komossa
- Astrophysical Journal 786(2) 786 (2014 May 10) DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/786/2/103
arXiv.org > astro-ph > arXiv:1404.4933 > 19 Apr 2014