Rare Double Quasar on Collision Course with Massive Black Hole Unveils Cosmic Secrets
The Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a rare double quasar, two of the brightest objects in the universe, about to collide in the early universe. Quasars form when matter falls into a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy, and the newly discovered quasar pair appears to have formed around 10 billion years ago. The twin nature of these objects makes them particularly exciting, and studying mergers like these could help us understand how galaxies like our own came to be.