New Delhi: Astronomers have got the first image of two gigantic black holes orbiting around each other. The findings secure one of the longstanding hypotheses and provide direct vision evidence of one of the cosmic phenomena, which researchers have not managed to perceive for decades.

The jets are in a quasar of OJ287 that is approximately 5 billion light-years in the constellation of Cancer. Quasars belong to the category of the brightest objects in the universe, emitting energy due to the massive energy that is emitted because of the fall of material into the supermassive black holes. This is the first time two black holes have been detected in a mutual orbit, although they have been detected on other occasions, including recently in the Milky Way and Messier 87.

Century-long mystery

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