An article published in the journal “Astronomy & Astrophysics” reports the detection of a pair of supermassive black holes in the galaxy NGC 7727. A team of researchers used ESO’s VLT to conduct the observations that led to a discovery that broke two records in this field. The two supermassive black holes are the closest pair discovered so far at about 89 million light-years from Earth and are the closest to each other, as their distance was estimated to be around 1,600 light-years.