Black hole 'hurled out of galaxy'
Jesus Christ in a canoe. The next time I'm even slightly concerned about some trifling bit of Earthling assholery, I'll restore my sense of perspective by imagining how many aeons this omnivorous thing has already spent hurtling around the cosmos like Azathoth's own hot rod.
Jesus Christ in a canoe. The next time I'm even slightly concerned about some trifling bit of Earthling assholery, I'll restore my sense of perspective by imagining how many aeons this omnivorous thing has already spent hurtling around the cosmos like Azathoth's own hot rod.
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| 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. Normally, each galaxy contains a supermassive black hole at its centre. Given that these objects can have masses equivalent to one billion Suns, it takes a special set of conditions to cause this to happen. |
