A Tour of Triplet Black Holes

Three giant black holes have been spotted within a titanic collision of three galaxies. This discovery was made using data from NASA s Chandra Xray Observatory and other telescopes both on the ground and in space. To uncover this rare black hole trifecta, researchers first needed information from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey telescope in New Mexico that scans large swaths of the sky in optical light. With the help of citizen scientists across the globe as part of the Galaxy Zoo Project, the system known a