A first! 3 supermassive black holes discovered in 1 galaxy
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Astronomers from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics announced on August 12, 2026, the first-ever detection of three supermassive black holes in one galaxy, called J0148-4214, located 12.5 billion light-years away. Two of the black holes lie near the center, 620 light-years apart, with masses of 80 million and 600,000 solar masses respectively; the third orbits 5,500 light-years away with 2 million solar masses.
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