Huge black hole strayed in the galaxy

A black hole about 100,000 times more massive than the Sun is knocked out of its position and is moving in the galaxy.

The team, led by physicist Dacheng Lin of the University of New Hampshire, in charge of detecting a black hole that has been knocked out of position and moving in its galaxy, IFL Science reported on October 6.

The giant black hole was knocked out of its moving position in the galaxy.(Photo: Chandra X-ray Observatory).

From 2000 to 2015, scientists used the European Space Agency's (ESA) XMM-Newton space observatory and the Chandra space telescope of the US Space Agency. close to a special area of ​​the galaxy GJ1417 + 52 , 4.5 billion light-years from Earth.

They discovered a super-bright X-ray source toward the galaxy's edge . It carries all the characteristics of a giant black hole but not at the center of the galaxy. The team speculated that this could be a rare black hole.

The object named XJ1417 + 52 has about 100,000 times the mass of the Sun. The team thinks that black holes are knocked out when their galaxy merges or collides with another galaxy. When a collision occurs, the sun of a galaxy approaches the giant black hole of the galaxy, causing the black hole to bounce off its position and the sun crumbling.

This new finding has helped reinforce the hypothesis that in a special case, such as colliding with a larger galaxy, a black hole might bounce off its central location.