Supermassive Black Hole Gets Booted Out of its Home Galaxy
Astronomers at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands have found what appears to be a supermassive black hole leaving its home galaxy at high speed. Given that these objects can have masses equivalent to 1 billion Suns, it takes a special set of conditions to cause this to happen. The newly-discovered object is probably the result of the collision and merger of two large black holes. The path of the resulting recoiling black hole most likely depends on the direction, speed, and rotation of the two black holes before their collision, but more instances need to be found and studied.
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It's before my 2nd coffee so a Pythonesque image comes to mind.<br>"Calling all cars. Calling all cars. Be on the lookout for a runaway black hole. Description follows...uh...uh...hmm..."
<br>Larry:<br><br>That is funny.<br><br>I had a similar thought as I was posting the news item -- one of the reality show "Survivor."<br><br>"I am sorry to inform you that you have been voted off the island... It is time for you to leave."<br><br><br>Guy<br><br><br><br><blockquote class="blockquote"><div class="italic"><i>Larry Janowicz said:</i><br><br>It's before my 2nd coffee so a Pythonesque image comes to mind.<br>"Calling all cars. Calling all cars. Be on the lookout for a runaway black hole. Description follows...uh...uh...hmm..."</div></blockquote>
Is this x-ray emitter at the same distance as the galaxy? How could they determine that? Seems like it could be in a lot of other places other than the galaxy's neighborhood. <br><br>Like a lot of what's posted here, this article's conclusions are a bit of a stretch. If I could guess at the agenda it would be, "Keep our money coming."<br>Bob<br>
