Red Eyes: Cosmic Lens Reveals a Pair of Black Holes ⚡ экспресс
Original: "VENUS: Two Faint Little Red Dots Separated by $$\sim70\,\mathrm{pc}$$ Hidden in a Single Lensed Galaxy at $$z\sim7$$"
The James Webb Space Telescope spotted a pair of red "eyes" in a distant galaxy — revealed by a gravitational lens.
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Astronomers found two pairs of red "eyes" in a distant galaxy — these are growing black holes, hidden so well that without a gravitational lens you'd never spot them. It turned out they wander on the outskirts, not in the center. So galaxies might be teeming with such invisibles, which later merge into a supermassive monster.
🎯 The pair of Red Eyes is separated by 70 parsecs — nearly 30 times less than the distance from us to the Galactic Center. For black holes, that's an extremely tight proximity.