losest pair of supermassive black holes discovered yet in amazing 4K galaxy zoom-in
  • 2 years ago
Take a journey to 89 million light-years away from Earth to the NGC 7727 galaxy. It harbors the closest pair of supermassive black holes discovered yet.

Credit: ESO/L. Calçada ; N. Risinger (skysurvey.org); Digitized Sky Survey 2; VST ATLAS team; Voggel et al. | mash mix by Space.com's [Steve Spaleta](https://twitter.com/stevespaleta)

Music: Stratosphere Voyage by Spirits Of Our Dreams / courtesy of http://www.epidemicsound.com


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