TODAY's SCIENCE; Rare Phenomenon of 3 Black Holes Monsters Will Collide

TRIBUNBATAM.id -  The new study reports that it has captured a rare trio of supermassive black holes. These three monsters that devour light attach to each other at SDSS, J084905.51 + 111447.2, a system of three galaxies that are merging and are about 1 billion light years from Earth.

"We only wanted to find black hole pairs at the time, but, through our selection technique, we found an extraordinary system," said writer Ryan Pfeifle, from George Mason University in Virginia, in a statement reported by Live Science.

"This is the strongest evidence found for a system of three objects that actively feed black holes," he said

The discovery began with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) telescope in New Mexico, which imaged the SDSS J084905.51 + 111447.2 in the optical light. The volunteers who are the members of the Galaxy Zoo project then tagged the pictures to inform the system of the ongoing merging of galaxies. 

Next, the researchers looked at data collected by NASA's Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft. WISE sees a lot of infrared light coming from the system during the merging phase, where more than one supermassive black hole is expected to gather material quickly.

NASA's X-ray Observatory also detected a strong source of X-rays near each galactic center, which indicates that there was a lot of gas and dust consumed there - a sign of black holes being fed.

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The same thing happened to the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, which found the evidence of gas and dust surrounding one of the black holes. And the optical-light data collected by the SDSS and the Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona reinforces the notion that these three black holes are active. 

At present, the distance from each black hole to its closest neighbor ranges from 10,000 light years to 30,000 light years. However, the landscape will shrink because they will merge like the main galaxy now.

Astronomers was already know alittle about how the black holes collide. However, according to the researchers, the three black hole merging system might work a little differently from the traditional duo merging system.

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For example, the existence of the third supermassive black hole should make the two neighbors unite more quickly. 

"This may be a solution to a theoretical puzzle called the 'final parsec problem', where two supermassive black holes can approach up to the several light-years away, but will need some additional pull to join because of the excess energy that they carry in the orbit," wrote the experts on the Chandra mission.

"The influence of the third black hole, as in SDSS J0849 + 1114, can finally unite them," they concluded. (*) 

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