One of the best things about that universe is that there is so much to it. If you look hard enough, you can most likely find any combination of astronomical events happening. Not long ago we
reported on research that found 7 separate instances of three galaxies colliding with one another. Now, a team led by Jonathan Williams of the
University of Maryland has found another triple galaxy merging cluster, but this one might potentially have two active supermassive black holes, allowing astronomers to peer into the system dynamics of two of the universe’s most extreme objects running into one another.
To find this unique system, Mr. Williams looked at data from a wide variety of sources, including the
Very Large Array,
European Southern Observatory,
W. M. Keck Observatory,
Chandra X-ray Observatory, and the
Atacama Large Millimeter / Submillimeter Array. Sifting through all of that data, he found the system in an extremely bright patch of the sky about 800 million light-years away.
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