The Hubble Space Telescope has photographed a “200,000 light-year-long trail of newborn stars” that may have been left behind by a runaway supermassive black hole. Video credit: Black Hole Animation NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Jeremy Schnittman Image from NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory/CXC and J. Vaughan 3 black hole orbits and fronds Image from the article “A Supermassive Black Hole fleeing candidate identified by shocks and star formation in its wake” by PI Pieter Von Dokkum et al. Schematic illustration of the uncontrollable SMBH scenario to explain the main characteristics observed. Panels 1–5 show a “classic” slingshot scenario (e.g., Saslaw et al. 1974). The background of panel 6 is an image from an Illustris TNG simulation (Pillepich et al. 2018) Music credit: “Unclaimed Space” by Peter Nickalls (PRS) via Atmosphere Music Ltd. (PRS) and Universal Production Music.
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