Science is Cool: Black Hole Hurled Out of Galaxy

Thanks to Stupid Monkey Planet for helping me out with some blog posts. It's weird how the blogging urge can wane some nights. But I'm always up for a cool science story, and this one is pretty cool.

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Image from source, BBC

Black hole 'hurled out of galaxy'

A supermassive black hole may have been observed in the process of being hurled from its parent galaxy at high speed.


The finding comes from analysis of data collected by the US Chandra space X-ray observatory.

However, there are alternative explanations for the observation.

The work, by an international team of astronomers, has been published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. . .

Read more at: BBC