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NASA spots pair of supermassive black holes battling it out as their galaxies collide | A crisp image shows the cosmic bodies, which NASA describes as "two Sumo wrestlers squaring off"


At just 300 light-years apart, these are the nearest confirmed pair of supermassive black holes spotted in our local universe using visible and X-ray light observations. While...

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