[TADSLOS]

A supermassive black hole appears to be homeless in the cosmos without a galaxy to nestle in...

Give it a government debit card loaded with two grand.

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

GET THAT BLACK HOLE ON GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE NOW!!
It's homeless and our compassion knows no bounds...even the galaxy is not too big for our Congress spending money to help this "homeless victim"!

[Paloma_55]

They realized it was homeless when they noticed a cardboard sign that read "Will suck light for food"

[BenLurkin]

I still wonder.

If our astronomers were to spot an interstellar vehicle of some sort: Would they know what they were looking at? Might they mistake the effect of an exotic propulsion system for a natural phenomena?

</tin foil off>

[America's Resolve]

Hmmm. As I understand it, our technology can't "see" a black hole, just the side effects of gas and other matter getting sucked into one.

If this has been out in the intergalactic void for who knows how many billion years when it would have eaten all its native sources of nonreplenishible matter, and has no native galaxy, where's the gas and dust coming from to allow us to know that it's there while it's feeding??

Interesting

[ScreamingFist]

A supermassive black hole appears to be homeless in the cosmos without a galaxy to nestle in..

Because they found a Black Hole so massive that it has already consumed the host galaxy.....this physics stuff is easy, who needs grants.....

[muir_redwoods]

Maybe it ate its galaxy and is roaming around loking for another meal.

"Coming to a neighborhood near you...."

[ladyinred]

Oh NO! Is it Bush's fault????? :-)

[DakotaGator]

It had a galaxy. It ate the galaxy. And I'm sure it all started with unrestrained government spending ;-)

[Battle Hymn of the Republic]

Recently I have been checking out the stars and constantly reminded how amazing God's work is.

Space is so immense that is is hard to comprehend, yet 5 billion light-years is probably just a tiny spec in God's hand.

That's how big God is.

[manwiththehands]

A black hole? Isn't that where our tax dollars go? And a black hole with nothing left to consume? Prophetic?

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Somewhere a galaxy has a picture of the black hole on its milk cartons...

[kcar]

Okay, okay. "We'll" pay to rebuild that too. I'm sure my grandchildren will have grandchildren that will also have grandchildren that will assent to underwrite that. Unless they shrug.

[Syntyr]

Okay what does it say about me that I find this thread very funny and entertaining...

[dangus]

Could the black hole have swallowed its entire galaxy, or do scientists expect that even in that instance, there would be a residual debris left?

Or could the black hole have come from a massive star which escaped from a galaxy?

[Constantine XIII]

I'd be more impressed if they found one WITH a bottom.

[kcar]

Symetrically disposed between the twin Splincter Galaxies, the massive void has been nicknamed by the astronomers as Moore's Hole.
<P< Abandon hope all ye who enter here...

[neverdem]

bflr

[kublia khan]

God almighty gotta get these glasses checked, I looked at the title and thought it said Hubbie spies homeless black hole, man I knew that wasn't going anyplace good

[Mister Baredog]

No picture?< humor >