Scientists find a black hole moving through its galaxy 110,000 mph

Researchers at the Harvard and Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have, according to a recent study, discovered a supermassive black hole that is apparently underway, with a mass of more than a million suns together. This one is claimed to be three million times the mass of the sun. ‘We do not expect the majority to move supermassive black holes; they are usually content to just sit around, ”says lead author of study astronomer Dominic Pesce, according to Harvard. “They are just so heavy that it’s hard to get them going. ‘Consider how much harder it is to get a bowling ball kicked than to kick a soccer ball. “Realize that the ‘bowling ball’ in this case is a few million times the mass of our sun,” he said. The Harvard report notes that the research team has been focusing on observing this rare phenomenon for the past five years, hypothesizing that if the black hole and the galaxy do not have the same velocity, then the black hole is on one or the other way “disturbed.” The team looked over ten galaxies to study the supermassive black holes that were hiding inside their nuclei.

The team found that nine of the ten supermassive black holes appeared to be, while one was apparently in motion and moving around in its galaxy. Harvard said that the black hole is 230 million light-years from Earth in a galaxy called J0437 + 2456. Pesce and his team clocked the black hole at a speed of 110,000 miles per hour inside the galaxy. The reason for the move is unknown. “We can merge the aftermath of two supermassive black holes,” radio astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory Jim Condon, and co-author of the study, told Harvard. “The result of such a merger could cause the newborn black hole to fall back, and we can watch it in action or when it goes down again.” The scientists believe that one possibility is that the black hole interacts with another black a hole that looks hidden because certain properties are not visible. “Despite every expectation that they really should be there to a large extent, scientists have had a hard time identifying clear examples of binary supermassive black holes,” Pesce told Harvard. “What we could see in the J0437 + 2456 galaxy is one of the black holes in such a pair, while the other remains hidden from our radio observations due to the lack of emission of machine.” The group of researchers shared its findings in The Astrophysics Journal.