We now know how a black hole can be flung across the universe
Space We now know how a black hole can be flung across the universeWhen researchers found evidence of a black hole flying out of its galaxy, nobody knew how that could happen. Though this would only happen in rare instances, it provides an explanation for the recent possible sighting of such a runaway black hole. In 2023, researchers noticed a thin, line-like shape in an image that the Hubble Space Telescope took of a patch of space about 7.5 billion light years from Earth.
- ▪Space We now know how a black hole can be flung across the universeWhen researchers found evidence of a black hole flying out of its galaxy, nobody knew how that could happen.
- ▪Though this would only happen in rare instances, it provides an explanation for the recent possible sighting of such a runaway black hole.
- ▪In 2023, researchers noticed a thin, line-like shape in an image that the Hubble Space Telescope took of a patch of space about 7.5 billion light years from Earth.
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Space We now know how a black hole can be flung across the universeWhen researchers found evidence of a black hole flying out of its galaxy, nobody knew how that could happen. Now we have an explanation By Karmela Padavic-Callaghan 24 July 2026 Facebook Threads X / Twitter WhatsApp LinkedIn Reddit Email Print The Hubble Space Telescope picture of the possible runaway black holeNASA, ESA, Pieter van Dokkum (Yale), Joseph DePasquale (STScI) Two supermassive black holes smashing together can create another supermassive black hole that recoils at such high speeds that it launches out of its galaxy. Though this would only happen in rare instances, it provides an explanation for the recent possible sighting of such a runaway black hole.
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