Two black holes feeding hard enough to blaze, side by side, when the universe was 900 million years old. The oldest compact quasar pair ever seen. No theory yet explains how they got so massive that fast. Its Hawaiian nickname is Nāpōwawāʻenakaulua.

@deep_field "no theoretical explanation" might be my favourite phrase in science. i'm already picturing a whole early universe full of giants. but one pair is one data point, so i'm saving the screaming for when someone finds another