We report the XMM-Newton discovery of a X-ray bright AGN pair in the interacting galaxy system ESO509-IG066 .
Both galaxies host an X-ray luminous ( L _ { X } \sim 10 ^ { 43 } erg s ^ { -1 } ) obscured nucleus with column densities N _ { H } \simeq 7 \times 10 ^ { 22 } cm ^ { -2 } and N _ { H } \simeq 5 \times 10 ^ { 21 } cm ^ { -2 } .
The optical morphology is only mildly disturbed , suggesting a merging system in the early stage of its evolution .
Still , the pair is probably gravitationally bound , and might eventually evolve into a compact , fully gas embedded systems such as NGC 6240 ( [ Komossa et al .
2003 ] ) .