NASA detects rare ‘double quasar’ in ancient corner of the universe – Livescience.com

What burns brighter than a quasar the hungry, supermassiveblack holes
that outshine entire galaxies as they voraciously gobble up everything in reach?
How about a “double quasar?”
In a new study, astronomers used NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to peer 10 billion years into the cosmic past, where they detected two gargantuan quasars on the verge of colliding. Sitting at the centers of their respective galaxies, these hungry quasars have less than 10,000 light-years
of breathing room between them,…

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