"Runaway'" black hole the size of 20 million suns found speeding through space with a trail of newborn stars behind it

Live Science (via MSN.com) ^ | 21 February 2023 | Robert Lea

[zeestephen]

The discovery offers the first observational evidence that supermassive black holes can be ejected from their home galaxies to roam interstellar space...The researchers discovered the runaway black hole as a bright streak of light while they were using the Hubble Space Telescope to observe the dwarf galaxy RCP 28, located about 7.5 billion light-years from Earth.

[Larry Lucido]

I’m late, I’m late, for a very important date! No time to say “Hello, Good Bye” I’m late, I’m late, I’m late!

[Chad C. Mulligan]

The universe isn't just stranger than we imagine, it's stranger than we can imagine.

[Texas Fossil]

via MSN

headshake

[Mr. K]

Why are we hearing more from The Hubble lately than The $t0 BILLION James Webb telescope?

And who the F is James Webb anyway?

[Texas Fossil]

“first observational evidence that supermassive black holes can be ejected from their home galaxies to roam interstellar space.”

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Home Home on the Range where the supermassive “black holes” roam?

I saw a photo yesterday of one of “those” things. It was Huge and Black and strange. (and disgusting)

[PIF]

Original citation: Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. I have read and heard many attempts at a systematic account of it, from materialism and theosophy to the Christian system or that of Kant, and I have always felt that they were much too simple. I suspect that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of, or can be dreamed of, in any philosophy. J. B. S. Haldane 1927 in “Possible Worlds”.

[jerod]

Apparently the earths core has stopped spinning... The question is... Did it ever actually spin in the first place, or was that just supposition?

[zeestephen]

Re: via MSN - head shake

I thought you read every article at Live Science every day?

You could have posted this and saved me the trouble.

[Texas Fossil]

Sorry. Did not mean to insult.

I never read Live Science.

But the wording of the article was meant to be cute and I was not impressed with content.

[NWFree]

Don Lemon wants to know if they see an airliner

[Pikachu_Dad]

Probably because the primary investigators get first crack at any research. So there is at least a year delay between the imaging and the results.

[Mark17]

The researchers discovered the runaway black hole as a bright streak of light while they were using the Hubble Space Telescope to observe the dwarf galaxy RCP 28, located about 7.5 billion light-years from Earth.

Are we all going to die? 😆

[Pikachu_Dad]

Isn’t that in the small size for a black hole?

Most of the claimed black hole mergers were on the 15-20 million Sun size going to 40 million.

So where is it ‘running to’. What is the great attraction?

[Sirius Lee]

But the wording of the article was meant to be cute

Black holes aren't cute so much as they are attractive.

[Romulus]

Yes. Yes we are.

[Mark17]

Yes. Yes we are.

😆😆😆😆

[Texas Fossil]

True that.

[lefty-lie-spy]

Paging Abe Froman.

[nagant]

The operative questions are why. Why would a galaxy size black hole eject a super-large black hole, and why would it travel so fast in relation to the objects around it, so fast in relation to the black hole which ejected it?

I can understand why it is ejecting mass. It’s because it is living in slowing time.