Detecting monster black holes as large as 1 billion Sun.

The Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a giant black hole believed to be the largest ever outside the galactic core with a mass of more than 1 billion times the Sun.

The new study shows that this supermassive black hole has escaped its galactic core with gravitational waves. The cosmic black hole is also considered a monster because of its ability to swallow every material on its way.

The monster black hole is 35,000 light-years from its galaxy center, larger than the distance from Earth and the Sun to our Milky Way core.

The researchers say this "monster" is moving at a rate of 7.6 million km / h, fast enough to escape its galaxy for 20 million years. At this rate, it can travel from Earth to the Moon in 3 minutes.

Hubble's image shows a quasar in the 3C186 galaxy 8 billion light-years from Earth and away from the host galaxy core.(Photo: NASA).

It is estimated that the energy source that pushes the black hole out of the galaxy center may be equivalent to the energy of 100 million supernovae.

The team used the Hubble Space Telescope of the US Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to study the galaxy 3C186 , about 8 billion light-years from Earth.

Hubble's image shows the star-like radiation source, the quasar , the sign of a supermassive black hole, in the galaxy. This is not surprising because most galaxies contain huge black holes at their cores.

However, the quasar of 3C186 is not located in the galaxy core. Scientists think it is the black hole at the farthest center ever discovered.

The theoretical explanation for this bizarre position of the black hole is that the 3C186 galaxy is merging with another galaxy and making its central black holes unite. This process may have started 1 to 2 billion years ago.

The central black hole of the 2 galaxies circled close together and got closer to the collision. Two giant objects will stop emitting gravitational waves after the merger process is completed.

If this hypothesis is correct, this will be solid evidence that super mass black holes can merge.