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Supermassive Black Hole Rocketing Out of Distant Galaxy At 5 Million MPH (blastr.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the flying-through-space dept.

The Bad Astronomer writes: Astronomers have found a supermassive black hole barreling out of its home galaxy at 5 million miles per hour. The 3 billion solar mass behemoth formed from the merger of two slightly smaller black holes after two galaxies collided and themselves merged. The resulting blast of gravitational waves is thought to have been asymmetric, causing a rocket effect which launched the resulting black hole away. It's currently 40,000 light years from the galaxy's core. Source: ESA/Hubble

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  1. Why not use the NASA article instead? by Z00L00K · · Score: 4, Informative

    Article found here: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/g...

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  2. Re:currently? by DamonHD · · Score: 4, Funny

    Relatively up-to-date when talking about /. news items. B^>

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  3. Empirical lab by Oligonicella · · Score: 4, Funny

    Excellent news. Now we can determine if the rotational issues with galaxies holds. All we have to do is observe this now coreless galaxy for the next 10 to 50 million years and see if it's rotation changes.