'Bizarre' Group of Distant Black Holes are Mysteriously Aligned
We're probably going to need a few more dimensions and phantom particles to explain this one. Meanwhile, there's that innocent "compass" comment sitting right there waiting to be noticed.A highly sensitive radio telescope has seen something peculiar in the depths of our cosmos: A group of supermassive black holes are mysteriously aligned, as if captured in a synchronized dance.
These black holes, which occupy the centers of galaxies in a region of space called ELAIS-N1, appear to have no relation to one another, separated by millions of light-years. But after studying the radio waves generated by the twin jets blasting from the black holes' poles, astronomers using data from the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) in India realized that all the jets were pointed in the same direction, like arrows on compasses all pointing "north."
