The black hole is believed to weigh as much 20 million suns
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has accidentally captured images of a "runaway" black hole barreling through space, leaving behind a contrail of newborn stars.
The black hole, weighing as much as 20 million suns, is traveling through space so fast that if it were in our solar system, it could travel from Earth to the Moon in 14 minutes, according to NASA.
The 200,000-light-year "contrail" of stars that the black hole is leaving behind is approximately twice the diameter of the Milky Way. NASA said the phenomenon is likely the result of a game of "galactic billiards among three massive black holes.
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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has accidentally captured images of a "runaway" black hole barreling through space, leaving behind a contrail of newborn stars.
The black hole, weighing as much as 20 million suns, is traveling through space so fast that if it were in our solar system, it could travel from Earth to the Moon in 14 minutes, according to NASA.
The 200,000-light-year "contrail" of stars that the black hole is leaving behind is approximately twice the diameter of the Milky Way. NASA said the phenomenon is likely the result of a game of "galactic billiards among three massive black holes.
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope spots runaway black hole creating ‘trail of stars’
Using a Hubble Space Telescope, NASA researchers accidentally stumbled upon a supermassive black hole leaving behind a "contrail" of newborn stars.
