A stunning ‘runaway’ black hole has been found, leaving behind newborn stars

Researchers have spotted a fleeing black hole in images from the Hubble Telescope.

One oversized Black hole run away from him galaxy At a speed of about 4 million miles per hour, from which he could travel Land to the Moon in just 14 minutes, astronomers led by Yale University discovered.

Analysis of images from the space telescope Hubble Ha NASA Researchers have discovered an unusual, very thin, almost straight band of young stars. After observations using the Keck Observatory’s Low Resolution Imaging Spectrometer and Near Infrared Spectrometer, they concluded that they were seeing traces of a flying black hole. The results are published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

The black hole left behind an unprecedented trail of newborn stars 200,000 light-years across. “We think we are seeing a wave behind the black hole, as the gas cools and is able to form stars. This is how we see the formation of stars that follow the black hole,” says Yale Professor of Astronomy and Physics and lead author of the study, Peter Van Duqm. He also characteristically adds: “What we see is what follows. Like the stern behind a ship, we see beyond the black hole.”

the Peter Van Duqm He notes that “nothing like this has been seen anywhere in the universe.” “We’ve long known that supermassive black holes exist, and it was speculated about 50 years ago that they can sometimes eject galaxies. If confirmed, this would be the first evidence of a runaway supermassive black hole, validating this prediction.”.

One possible explanation for a black hole being pulled away from its parent galaxy involves the merger of two galaxies, each with a supermassive black hole at their core. As the black holes orbit each other in the center of the newly merged galaxy, a third supermassive black hole creeps inside another galaxy, and the interaction between the three creates enough speed to blow up one of the three black holes. Kind of like a game of galactic billiards between three massive black holes.

At a later stage, the researchers are seeking to make observations with the space telescope James Webb and the Chandra X-ray Observatory to confirm whether their discovery is in fact a runaway black hole.