Runaway black hole 'leaves behind' massive streak of stars in its wake - See Hubble's view

Video Credit:
Black Hole Animation
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Jeremy Schnittman

Image of Chandra X-Ray Observatory
NASA/CXC and J. Vaughan

3 Black Hole Orbits and Slingshots
Image from paper “A candidate runaway supermassive black hole identified by shocks and star formation in its wake” by PI Pieter Von Dokkum et al.

Schematic illustration of the runaway SMBH scenario as an explanation of the key observed features. Panels 1–5 show a “classical” slingshot scenario (e.g., Saslaw et al. 1974). The background of panel 6 is a frame from an Illustris TNG simulation (Pillepich et al. 2018)

Music Credit:
“Unclaimed Space” by Peter Nickalls [PRS] via Atmosphere Music Ltd. [PRS] and Universal Production Music.

[KingSkrap]

I just wish I could begin to contemplate how big the universe is

[AleksandarSichev]

Stephen Hawking: A black hole is not a trap, but a path to another universe.

[wooddogg]

Wow, that's really something different!

[roseanneroseannadanna]

It's a new galaxy being formed, that's my theory!