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Trio of Big Black Holes Spotted In Galaxy Smashup

sciencehabit writes Astronomers staring across the universe have spotted a startling scene: three supermassive black holes orbiting close to one another, two of them just a few hundred light-years apart. The trio, housed in a pair of colliding galaxies, may help scientists hunting for ripples in spacetime known as gravitational waves.

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  1. Re:Why did I read that as nipples in space time by antifoidulus · · Score: 4, Funny

    probably because the title talks about big black holes and a "smashup".....