{"id":163410,"date":"2023-05-05T23:23:36","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T04:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/gaze-upon-the-brutal-beauty-of-four-massive-black-holes-about-to-crash"},"modified":"2023-05-05T23:23:36","modified_gmt":"2023-05-06T04:23:36","slug":"gaze-upon-the-brutal-beauty-of-four-massive-black-holes-about-to-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/gaze-upon-the-brutal-beauty-of-four-massive-black-holes-about-to-crash","title":{"rendered":"Gaze Upon the Brutal Beauty of Four Massive Black Holes About to Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gaze-upon-the-brutal-beauty-of-four-massive-black-holes-about-to-crash2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In an effort to understand the origin of our galaxies, astronomers have spotted an insane, galactic showdown for the ages: <strong>four<\/strong> giant black holes in dwarf galaxies destined to collide, <strong>though not all in the same place<\/strong>. <strong>But<\/strong> boy, did they score a grand slam of astronomy firsts.<\/p>\n<p>Using NASA\u2019s Chandra X-ray Observatory, the astronomers kept a close eye on two separate pairs of merging dwarf galaxies. One is in a cluster 760 million light-years away, the other, over 3.2 billion. Unfortunately, us humans are relegated to the nosebleeds for this one.<\/p>\n<p>Still, we don\u2019t need to be close up to understand the significance of the findings, which were published as a <a href=\"https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.3847\/1538-4357\/aca1bb\" class=\"\">study<\/a> in <i>The Astrophysical Journals<\/i>. According to the researchers, it\u2019s the first evidence of large black holes in merging dwarf galaxies at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to understand the origin of our galaxies, astronomers have spotted an insane, galactic showdown for the ages: four giant black holes in dwarf galaxies destined to collide, though not all in the same place. But boy, did they score a grand slam of astronomy firsts. Using NASA\u2019s Chandra X-ray Observatory, the astronomers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}