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Astronomers Detect a Close Pair of Supermassive Black Holes for the First Time

Researchers discovered a closely orbiting pair of supermassive black holes in Markarian 501 by tracking two jets of particles. The binary system could merge within 100 years and may produce detectable gravitational waves.

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