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NASA: Chandra satellite discovers two supermassive black holes in a spiral galaxy for the first time

Cape Canaveral, USA - Could this be the first example of a merger between a larger galaxy and a much smaller one?

NASA unveiled yesterday on its website that thanks to the use of the orbital X-ray Chandra observatory some astronomers, including the Italian Guido Risaliti from INAF, Astrophysics Observatory of Arcetri- discovered for the first time two supermassive black holes in a spiral galaxy, similar to our Milky Way. All the galaxies usually have a black hole in the center, but the presence of two black...

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Rome, Italy, 09/01/2011 14:42
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