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N1 - Funding Information:This research was supported by the Shared Resources of the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center (P30CA177558 to B.M.E.). This work was also supported by grants from NIH (CA125454 and CA188118), DoD (BC140733P1), Mary Kay Ash Foundation and the Frankfort Country Club's Ladies Golf Association (to B.P. Zhou), and American Cancer Society Research Scholar Award (RSG13187) (to Y.Wu).Publisher Copyright: The Author(s) 2017.

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A team of American astronomers led by Paul Green searched for possible merger events4 by looking through a sample of binary quasar candidates in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 6. They found two quasars, SDSS J125455.09+084653.9 and SDSS J125454.87+084652.1, inside a large highly disturbed galaxy. On the sky, the two quasars are separated from one another by just 21 kiloparsecs (68,000 light-years). For comparison, the visible diameter of the Milky Way Galaxy is 37 kiloparsecs (120,000 light-years). 041b061a72