WARNING!
ASTRONOMY FANS!
WARNING!

You may not believe what I am writing in this post, but I assure you will not regret reading this. Can you believe it? According to a new study, a monster black hole has been flung from its home galaxy and is now careening through space! Argh......!


  
 
Based on the news article on Yahoo news, astronomers had spotted a supermassive black hole, which is usually found lurking in the center of galaxies, hightailing it out of a distant galaxy at a considerable speed! The cosmic ejection is taking place more than half a billion light-years from Earth. This shocking discovery was made with archived observations from the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
 
 
Although you might think that black holes themselves do not shine, but the material they gobble up actually heats as it falls in and releases radiation in the form of X-ray light! Normally, these bright X-ray spots are seen in the centers of galaxies, but in this case, researchers had found one offset to the side.

 

The kicked-out black hole could result from a special set of circumstances, according to computer simulations. For your information, supermassive black holes can contain the mass of more than a billion suns! Just how they accumulate all that mass is unknown, but some astronomers believe that they are formed when two smaller black holes collide earlier.

 

 
Depending on the direction and speed with which the two black holes rotate before they merge, the resulting gigantor may be thrown out of the galaxy, resulting in the cosmic interloper spotted in the Chandra observations.


So what do you think we have to do now? Of course, RUN......! (Just kidding!) Although these astronomy theories seem to be quite simple and solid, yet mysteries still remain unsolved......

  
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