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Galaxy evolution: A dusty black hole duo

The discovery of a dual active galactic nucleus demonstrates how to efficiently search for them in dusty, merging galaxies — and could yield more results in the future.

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Figure 1: Composite image from the Hubble Space Telescope of the double nucleus in Mrk 266.

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Runnoe, J. Galaxy evolution: A dusty black hole duo. Nat Astron 1, 0193 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-017-0193

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