It was a hole in two.
Finnish scientists have shot two black holes orbiting each other, offering the first ever definitive proof that these intergalactic voids come in pairs, per a study published October 9 in the
“For the first time, we managed to get an image of two black holes circling each other,” lead author Mauri Valtonen, an astronomer at the University of Turku in Finland, describing the celestial double-header.
The twin abysses, which were reportedly spotted through the faint fluctuations of radio light recorded by telescopes on land and in outer space and identified by the “intense particle jets they emit, according to Valtonen
Despite being perfectly black, these intergalactic holes “can be detected by these particle jets or by the glowing gas surrounding the hole.”
These particular ruptures are locked in a 12-year orbit some 5 billion light-years from Earth, and are circling the center of a quasar called OJ28.
