Giant Black Hole Kicked Out of Home Galaxy
Monday, June 4, 2012 - 13:30
in Astronomy & Space
Astronomers have found strong evidence that a massive black hole is being ejected from its host galaxy at a speed of several million miles per hour. New observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory suggest that the black hole collided and merged with another black hole and received a powerful recoil kick from gravitational wave radiation.