Black hole 'hurled out of galaxy'

[Forkboy]

The red circle indicates where a black hole may be

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.

more...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_environment/10108226.stm

[Chulanowa]

1. Remember though, what we see from space actually happened in the past

This actually happened in 1956; black holes don't get tossed out of galaxies these days.

[notesdev]

2. I know where that happened

It's the Jim Crow Galaxy

[ixion]

3. Learning to fly, or

the Birth of a Galaxy. :)