Astronomers Detect a Close Pair of Supermassive Black Holes for the First Time
...the two black holes orbit one another every 121 days. Their separation is roughly 250 to 540 times the Earth-Sun distance...
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H A U L I N G A S S ! ! !
Each is moving at ~6% of the speed of light!
That's fucking insaaaaaaaaaane holy shit
18k km/s
Edit: kms --> kkms
Math checks out. Hang on, that's barely faster than Voyager II.
18,000 km/s
Oops, yes, i meant kkms
Muse intensifies
Lol this is the first thing that popped into my head too