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Published 17:35 7 Jan 2017 GMT
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But don't panic too much. The nearest of the two is galaxy NGC 1448, a mere 38 million light years from the Milky Way. The other, IC3639, is 170 million light years away. This means that both galaxies and their spacetime-distorting black holes are a safe distance from Earth.
According to The Independent, the hidden blackholes were spotted by NASA's NuSTAR (Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array) orbiting observatory, designed to see X-rays.
“These black holes are relatively close to the Milky Way, but they have remained hidden from us until now," said astronomer Ady Annuar, from the University of Durham’s Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy.
“They're like monsters hiding under your bed. “Their recent discoveries certainly call out the question of how many other supermassive black holes we are still missing, even in our nearby universe.”
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