Wednesday, September 2, 2026

Physicists Determine Cause of "Runaway" Supermassive Black Hole

The rogue super-massive black hole compresses gas in its wake, forming a long “contrail” of young, blue stars. This unusual event happened when the universe was approximately half its current age. Credit: NASA/ESA/Leah Hustak/STScI

Researchers at UCSB and UT Austin have determined that a galactic merger kicked a supermassive black hole into intergalactic space.



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