Chandra Digest (September 27) SDSS J084905.51+111447.2

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** SDSS J084905.51+111447.2: Found: Three Black Holes On Collision Course
A trio of black holes located about a billion light years from Earth.

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https://chandra.si.edu/photo/2019/3blackholes/

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**Chandra Press: Found: Three Black Holes On Collision Course
Astronomers have discovered three giant black holes within a titanic collision of three galaxies.
https://chandra.si.edu/press/19_releases/press_092519.html

**Chandra Press: Scientists Discover Black Hole Has Three Hot Meals a Day

There's an adage that it's not healthy to skip meals. Apparently, a supermassive black hole in the center of a galaxy millions of light years away has gotten the message.

https://chandra.si.edu/press/19_releases/press_091119.html

**Chandra Blog: Hunting Elusive Giants: Chandra Spots a Triple AGN
Over the past several decades, we have come to understand that supermassive black holes (SMBHs), with masses in the range of one million to several billion times the mass of our own sun, reside at the centers of most massive galaxies.
https://chandra.si.edu/blog/node/739

**Chandra Blog: Let’s Talk About Black Holes
While scientists had found such regular eating habits of smaller, so-called stellar mass black holes, this is the first evidence of such behavior in the black hole giants that live at the centers of galaxies.
https://chandra.si.edu/blog/node/737

**Chandra Podcast: A Tour of Triplet Black Holes

A study using data from Chandra and other telescopes provides the strongest evidence yet for three supermassive black holes on a collision course.