Subscribe Today! The infinity galaxy, the third black hole is in the light blue patch of gas in the top middle. - Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, P. van Dokkum (Yale University).© IFL Science ...

Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum and a team of researchers have discovered an object in space they call the “Infinity” galaxy — two recently-collided galaxies that, together, look like the symbol for ...

Van Dokkum’s team, which includes Priyamvada Natarajan, Josephine F.W. Baggen, Michael Keim, and Imad Pasha, all from Yale, plans to continue studying the "baby black hole" in the Infinity galaxy.

And at the center of "Infinity," embedded in a cloud of gas, they say, is a supermassive black hole. The findings are described in a new study to be published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.