Cosmic ‘Cotton Candy’: Galaxy NGC 7727 | Gemini South Telescope
Cosmoview Episode 72: Gemini South, one half of the International Gemini Observatory operated by the National Science Foundation’s NOIRLab, captured the billion-year-old aftermath of a double spiral galaxy collision. At the heart of this chaotic interaction, entwined and caught in the midst of the chaos, is a pair of supermassive black holes—the closest such pair ever recorded from Earth.
Distance: 73 million light years
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Credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
Image and Videos: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF’s NOIRLab), J. Miller (International Gemini Observatory/NSF’s NOIRLab), M. Rodriguez (International Gemini Observatory/NSF’s NOIRLab), M. Zamani (NSF’s NOIRLab), J. Pollard
Duration: 49 seconds
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