“There’s an invisible monster on the loose, barreling through intergalactic space so fast that if it were in our solar system, it could travel from Earth to the Moon in 14 minutes,” said NASA this week.
According to the space agency, this “monster” is a supermassive black hole that weighs as much as 20 million suns.
It has also left behind a “never-before-seen 200,000-light-year-long ‘contrail’ of newborn stars, twice the diameter of our Milky Way galaxy.”
NASA said that the supermassive black hole now racing through outer space probably originated as the result of “a rare, bizarre game of galactic billiards,” among three other massive black holes.
Its history could span back around 50 million years, when astronomers think two galaxies merged and brought together two supermassive black holes at their centers.
At some point, another galaxy came along, toting its own black hole.
“The three black holes mixing it up led to a chaotic and unstable configuration,” NASA explained.
“One of the black holes robbed momentum from the other two black holes and got thrown out of the host galaxy.”
This singular black hole then took off while the other two went in the opposite direction.
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