NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center has released an animation depicting supermassive black holes, estimated to be 600 billion times the mass of the sun.
The black holes were observed using the Hubble Space Telescope and confirmed by the Event Horizon Telescope, which directly imaged a black hole for the first time in 2019.
The animation includes 10 supermassive black holes, the smallest of which is still 10 times the mass of the sun. Two of the black holes in the animation, located 16 million light-years from Earth, could merge in the next 25 million years, producing a significant amount of energy.
