“Two Feeding Supermassive Black Holes Found 175 Parsecs Apart in Early Universe Galaxy MG B” — what this page in the network covers. Astronomers have identified a pair of actively feeding supermassive black holes in the distant galaxy MG B2016+112, separated by just 175 parsecs (570 light-years). This discovery, reported in a study posted to the arXiv preprint server on September 25, makes it the most compact dual active galactic nucleus (AGN) known at a redshift of 3.273, when the universe was only about 2 billion years old. The finding provides a rare glimpse into how supermassive black holes grow and interact during the early stages of galaxy formation.
Such close pairs are expected to eventually merge, producing powerful gravitational waves. The system offers a unique laboratory for studying the co-evolution of galaxies and their central black holes in the young universe. This listing links straight to the original page, where the content is available in full.