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Adi Foord

Porat Fellow
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foord@stanford.edu

Research Highlights

This artist's concept shows the brilliant glare of two quasars residing in the cores of two galaxies that are in the chaotic process of merging. The gravitational tug-of-war between the two galaxies ignites a firestorm of star birth. (Credit: NASA, ESA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI).)
Hubble Unexpectedly Finds Double Quasar in Distant Universe
NGC 3341, one of the triple galaxy mergers studied in the sample, shown in the optical as observed by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). When analyzing the X-ray observation, only one X-ray bright supermassive black hole was detected. (Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ. of Michigan/A. Foord et al.; Optical: SDSS & NASA/STScI.)
What happens to the supermassive black holes at the hearts of merging galaxy trios?

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