Hubble Catches Possible Runaway Black Hole

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There’s an invisible monster on the loose! It’s barreling through intergalactic space fast enough to travel from Earth to the Moon in 14 minutes. But don’t worry, luckily this beast is very, very far away!

This potential supermassive black hole, weighing as much as 20 million Suns, has left behind a never-before-seen 200,000 light-year-long trail of newborn stars.

The streamer is twice the diameter of our Milky Way galaxy. It’s likely the result of a rare, bizarre game of galactic billiards among three massive black holes.

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Paul Morris: Lead Producer

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.



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Hubble still kicking strong after all these years I see.

NoExplosionsMcgee
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Better headline: "Blackhole escapes local zoo!" ⚫

Skull_Gun
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So *that's* where my UPS package went!

dmuth
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Cosmic spitwad making new hope for life out there!

CatchingVibes-etzv
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Blackhole are recyclers of Space-Time !!

theenderarchive
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Thats cool, Nancy grace commentator & newscaster got her own telescope. Anything is possible

jaw
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Oops 20, 000 bigger than sun
And is far away?

shahidssm
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Bro my heart was in my AS3 I thought we were all gonna die 💔

KestasyX
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🙄🥱🤔otra teoria que nunca veremos comprobar

jesusantonioechavarriadelgado
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我認為每個星球中心都有黑洞,
只是形成阻塞所以慢慢的變成星球
這也是為什麼地球有中心吸引力,
中心吸引力就是黑洞引起的。
這也是為什麼會有地震,
可能有一天地球可能會
因為黑洞風化溶解越來越小,
或者是黑洞阻塞越來越大顆

像是馬桶阻塞的感覺

sinboy
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Still it is 20, 000, 000 times smaller than Trump's and Musk's super egos.

LambertBrady
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0:18 What size suns are we talking about here? Suns come in quite a range.

BrianMcInnis
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That's DOPE..!!! Maybe now scientists will realize what black holes actually are... Change Engines....
Earth's gravity turns carbon into diamonds... Imaging what a black hole's gravity would do to matter or energy.

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