Black Holes Get In Early Artist's conception of galaxy 4C60.07
The Submillimeter Array atop Mauna Kea consists of eight radio
dishes observing as one. The dishes can be moved among 24
different locations to give resolution as great as a single 500
meter dish. It was built as a partnership between the Harvard-
Smithsonian zObservatory and the Institute of Astronomy and
Astrophysics in Taiwan. New observations here suggest that
Supermassive Black Holes were common in early galaxies. Two such
galaxies were observed in a collision 12 billion years in the
past. Galaxy 4C60.07 was first observed because of its bright
radio emission. The radio signal is one sign of a rapidly
spinning Black Hole. The latest observations reveal a previously
unknown companion galaxy preventing 4C60.07 from forming stars.
At a time when the Universe was less than 2 billion years old,
both galaxies contained Supermassive Black Holes. CfA Press
Release Every galaxy ever found contains at its centre an
enormous Black Hole. Even The Farthest