Rogue black hole 5000 light years away! Hubble finds evidence

The Hubble Space Telescope has found evidence of a "wandering" black hole about 5000 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers estimate that there could be 100 million black holes wandering around our galaxy.

Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

[replica]

(black holes may be beginnings of new galaxies - where gravity is shielding from cosmic radiation gravity can never exeed the speed of light)

[eneastavora]

I’m not worried. It will take a while to get here… I’ll take a nap!

[michaelbruns]

Ya there might be a lot of space between us (time actually) for now, but more and most importantly, what direction is this cosmic beast moving, towards us, or away from us?

[SherlockHomeless]

How can you measure an objects weight, without even having felt it?

[jonjosenna]

We need to develop a good space program.

[rexprangnell]

How does it move so fast with such a mass beneath, being so cumbersome how is it able to propel itself I can only imagine a. Large spring like shape ?but I’m just an ignorant kiwi fan

[madladonroids]

One day i took a mirror from my bathroom and placed it against the wall facing my back and stripped down my pants and turned my head to witness a super massive black hole. I was never aware a Rogue black hole of this size could be in plain sight.

[Leo.Wirabuana]

yep, theres a lot of space between it and us, and getting smaller of course.

[alphalight]

We could have a black hole headed towards us and we would never know

[dirkpitt]

I’m sorry but, another extremely blurry picture surrounded with a galaxy’s worth of supposition. There’s some hypothesis and some science there but the conclusion is a forgone one.