Two Supermassive Black Holes Discovered in Binary Orbit

If you ask someone what the craziest, most powerful, energetic, and enigmatic thing in the universe is, chances are they will say a black hole.  After all, we know so little about them, we have never directly seen one, and we can see their influence across space and time.  But there is apparently another notch on the crazy powerful cosmic object front.  Like turning the volume knob to eleven, a binary system of supermassive black holes has been discovered in a nearby quasar. A quasar is an incredibly bright core of a distant galaxy, shining brighter than the entire galaxy...