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.