VLA reveals new object near supermassive black hole in famous galaxy

in astronomy •  7 years ago 

VLA reveals new object near supermassive black hole in famous galaxy

What's scarier than a super massive black hole? Two super massive black holes, with one of them eating a star.

That's what scientists are saying this animated gif is.

Pointing the Very Large  Array (VLA) at a famous galaxy for the first time in two decades, a  team of astronomers got a big surprise, finding that a bright new object  had appeared near the galaxy's core. The object, the scientists  concluded, is either a very rare type of supernova explosion or, more  likely, an outburst from a second supermassive black hole closely  orbiting the galaxy's primary, central supermassive black hole.                                 

It's like being between scylla and charybdis.

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