NGC 7727, the billion-year-old aftermath of a double spiral #galaxy collision. At the heart of this chaotic interaction, entwined and caught in the midst of the #chaos, is a pair of supermassive #blackholes — the closest such pair ever recorded from #Earth.
Captured by Gemini South
https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noirlab2329a/
© International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA ; acknowledgment: PI: C. Onken; image processing: T.A. Rector, J. Miller, M. Rodriguez, M. Zamani