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The Turbulent Life of Two Supermassive Black Holes Caught in a Galaxy Crash

NGC 6240 as seen with ALMA. The molecular gas is blue and the black holes are the red dots. This image provides the sharpest view yet of the molecular gas around the black holes in this merging galaxy.

Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), E. Treister; NRAO/AUI/NSF, S. Dagnello

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