A galaxy with 2 bright bulges? Merging black holes?

• by rleiton

  My son and I found this galaxy showing 2 bright blobs in the centre. The galaxy body seems to be elongated along the blobs axis. The bulge on the left (SDSS J073906.17+442409.9) is an AGN accordingly to SDSS Sky Survey. It would be great to have a spectrum of the other bulge.
  Please keep us informed about this galaxy.

  Posted February 10, 2017 2:59 PM

• by Budgieye moderator

  Here is the spectrum of the other nucleus. It is very red with dust (hydrogen)clouds.

  

  

  

  http://skyservice.pha.jhu.edu/DR9/ImgCutout/getjpeg.aspx?ra=114.77430105&dec=44.40287068&scale=0.1980635&width=512&height=512&opt=S&query=&SpecObjs=on

  You can find information about galaxies near to the one you are looking at here

  #1 How do I : Find out more information about the galaxy I have classified? https://talk.galaxyzoo.org/#/boards/BGZ0000005/discussions/DGZ0000lv2

  Posted February 10, 2017 10:47 PM

• by mlpeck in response to Budgieye's comment.

  Cataloged AGN pair. It's a MaNGA target too, with data in the first public release.

  Posted February 11, 2017 6:24 PM