VLT Reveals Strange Alignments Between Supermassive Black Hole Axes and Large-Scale Structure
New observations with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile have revealed alignments over the largest structures ever discovered in the Universe.
A European research team has found that the rotation axes of the central supermassive black holes in a sample of quasars are parallel to each other over distances of billions of light-years.
The team has also found that the rotation axes of these quasars tend to be aligned with the vast structures in the cosmic web in which they reside.