Wise the text to entwined supermassive black holes topics astrophysics astronomy black hole JPL NASA wise by Whitney Clayvin jet propulsion laboratory NASA December 4th 2013 Two black holes are entwined in a gravitational tango in this artist conception Supermassive black holes with the hearts of galaxies are thought to form for the merging of smaller yet still massive black holes Such as the ones depicted here image credit NASA Using NASA's wide field infrared survey explorer astronomers have detected two supermassive black holes Circling each other at the heart of a distant galaxy Astronomers have spotted what appears to be two supermassive black holes at the heart of a remote galaxy Circling each other like dance partners the incredibly rare sighting was made with the help of NASA's wide field infrared survey explorer Or wise Follow up observations of the Australian telescope compact array near Narabri Australia and the German I South telescope and Chile revealed unusual features in the galaxy including a one-piece jet bought to be the result of one black hole causing the jet of the others to sway We think the jet of one black hole is being wiggle by the other like a dance of ribbons said KOA Say and NASA's jet propulsion laboratory passadena California Here is lead offer of a paper on the findings appearing in the December 10 edition issue of Astrophysical journal if so it is it is likely the two black holes are fairly close and gravitational and blind The findings could teach astronomers more about how supermassive black holes grow by merging with each other The wise satellite scan the entire sky twice and infrared wavelengths before being put into hibernation in 2011 NASA recently gave the spacecraft a secondly some life waking it up to search for asteroids in a project called Neo wise The new study to advantage if previously released all sky wise data Astronomers sifted through images of millions of actively feeding supermassive black holes spread for all of our sky before an oddball also known as wise J2 3 3 2 3 7 .05 dash 505 6 4 3 dot 5 jumped out At first we thought the scale X is unusual properties seen by wise not mean that was forming new stars at a furious rate Said Peter Eisenhart wise project manager and NASA's jet propulsion laboratory passadena California and a co-offer of the study But on closer inspection It looks more like the death spiral of merging giant black holes Almost every large galaxy is fought to harbor a supermassive black hole filled with the equivalent in mass About to billions of signs how did the black holes grow so large one way is by swallowing ambient materials Another way is through galactic cannibalism when galaxies collide the massive black holes sink to the center of the new structure Becoming locked in a gravitational tango eventually they merged into one even more massive black hole The dance of these black hole doers starts out slowly with the objects Sipling each other at a distance of about a few thousand light years So far only a few handfuls of supermassive black holes have been conclusively identified in this early phase of merging As the black holes continue to spiral in toward each other they get closer separated by just a few light years It is these close knit black holes also called black hole binaries that have been the hardest to find The objects are usually too small to be resolved even by powerful telescopes Only a few strong candidates have been identified today. It's all relatively nearby The new wise J2 332 37.05-505 643.5 is a neat candidate and located much further away at 3.8 billion light years from Earth Wagey LMG is with the Australian telescope Comhacto Ray working to identify the dual nature of wise J2 333237.05-505-643.5 Supermassive black holes are the cores of galaxies typically sheet out pencil straight jets But in this case the jet showed as exact pattern According to the scientists a second massive black hole could in essence be pushing its weight around to change the shape of the other black holes jet Visible light spectral data from the gym and myself telescope and Chile shared similar signs of abnormalities Thought to be the result of one black hole causing disk material surrounding the other black hole to clump Together these and other signs point to what is probably a fairly close knit set of circling black holes That a scientist can't say for sure how much distance separates them We know some caution in interpreting this mysterious system said Daniel Stern or JPL a co-offer of the study There are several extremely unusual properties to the system from the multiple radio jets to the gym and eye data Which indicate a highly perturbed disk of a creasing material around the black hole or holes Two merging black holes which should be a common event in the universe would appear to be simplest explanation to explain all the current observations The final stage of merging black holes is predicted to send the gravitational waves Whippling through space and time researchers are actively searching for these waves using a rays of dead stars called pulsars It helps of learning more about the veiled black hole dancers See astronomers discover new information about black hole mergers NASA's jet propulsion laboratory Pasadena California manages and operates the wise mission for NASA science mission Directorate the wise mission was selected competitively under NASA's explorers program managed by the agencies gottered spice flight space flight center In Greenbelt, Maryland the science instrument was built by the space dynamic slobler hory in Logan, Utah The spacecraft was built by bowl aerospace and technology's cooperation and Boulder, Colorado Science operations and data processing take place at the infrared processing and analysis center at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena Publication chow way say it all wise j233237.05-505 643.5 A double-peaked broad-lined AGM of spiral-shaped radio morphology 2013 APJ 77941 DRI colon 10.1088 forward slash 000 4-637 x forward slash 7779 forward slash 1 forward slash 41