Hubble spotted a monster black hole that is leaving a trail of star formation in its wake as it speeds across the cosmos.
Image: NASA, ESA, Leah Hustak
If you buy through affiliate links, we may receive a commission, helping support our product testing.The thought of a runaway black hole zooming through the cosmos is a bit unsettling. However, a new finding from Hubble’s observations shows that not only is a ‘monster’ black hole speeding through space without a home galaxy, but it also isn’t taking time toInstead, this rampant black hole is speeding through space, leaving a wake of cosmic star formation in its path.
Suffice it to say, we don’t have to worry about this particular black hole stopping by and eating Earth or any of the other stars around us. Still, the discovery of such a peculiar and intriguing ‘monster’ black hole, as NASA describes it, is something that has caught many astronomers’ eyes. In a new study on the black hole, astronomers take a closer look at the trail of dusty star formation it is leaving in its wake. Instead of eating away at other stars, the black hole is moving so quickly that it pushes through the gas it encounters, and then when that gas cools, stars begin to form.
“Like the wake behind a ship we’re seeing the wake behind the black hole,”: Pieter Van Dokkum, a researcher at Yale University,
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