Researchers discovered a closely orbiting pair of supermassive black holes in Markarian 501 by tracking two jets of particles. The binary system could merge within 100 years and may produce detectable gravitational waves.
…the two black holes orbit one another every 121 days. Their separation is roughly 250 to 540 times the Earth-Sun distance…
That’s fucking insaaaaaaaaaane holy shit
18k km/s
Edit: kms --> kkms
18,000 km/s
Oops, yes, i meant kkms
Math checks out. Hang on, that’s barely faster than Voyager II.