A recent NASA news revealed what appears to be a monster black hole being kicked out from the center of the galaxy. The discovery was made by the Hubble space telescope giving us a glimpse of the immense power contained within gravitational waves.
The monster black hole is estimated to have a mass of over a billion suns and is possibly the result of a merger between two smaller black holes. It is assumed that it is the largest one of its kind to exist outside a galactic core.
The merging of the two black holes created massive gravitational waves, displacing the resulting super- massive black hole. The waves are estimated to carry the energy of 100 million supernovas, easily capable of kicking such a massive object out of the galaxy.
While the NASA news release stated that the discovery was only made recently, scientists were already aware of such a phenomenon. The findings made by the Hubble space telescope only served to confirm what they have been assuming all this time.
Marco Chiaberge, a team leader of the Space Telescope Science Institute said that he was surprised of such peculiar phenomenon. Black holes are mostly located at the center of the galaxies where their massive gravitational pull sucks in nearby objects.
While black holes are invisible to the naked eye, an indicator of their existence is the quasars. Quasars are the visible energy signatures of black holes and their existence indicates the presence of a black hole.
Images from Hubble revealed a bright quasar named 3C 186 in a galaxy 8 billion light years away. However, the quasar was 35,000 light years away from the galaxy's core.
This leads scientists to believe that powerful gravitational waves pushed the monster black hole out of position from the center of the galaxy. The Daily Star reported that the black hole is now attempting to escape the galaxy altogether and that will be credited to the gravity waves.
According to the NASA news, scientists will be working with other facilities to measure the speed of the black hole. Rogue black holes are a real threat in our galaxy. However, this particular monster black hole is still at a considerable distance to be of any threat within our lifetime.
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