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A yawning void among the stars pointed to a record-breaking pair of black holes.
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In the center of a distant galaxy, a 3,000-light-year-wide void yawns. Stars should be there, but they've vanished. The solution: two heavyweight black holes (15 times more massive than the center of the Milky Way) flung the stars away with their dance. Possibly the heaviest pair of black holes in the Universe.
🎯 The discovered pair of black holes is heavier than all the stars in some small galaxies combined.
🎬 If in 'Interstellar' the hero dove into one black hole, here a pair of giants scooped out a starless abyss around themselves.