Black Holes
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Super Massive Black Hole in Galaxies
A group of astronomers studying a galaxy eight billion light years away, found a supermassive black hole that had just made a run for it. It was still moving at a speed of about 13 hundred miles per second and weighed as much as a billion suns. The researchers estimated that it would ire the energy equivalent of 100 million super novas. But how dod that happen? Oh, what you need to do, apparently, is mix the wrong black holes together. Is, at least right now, the best hypothesis that astronomers have for why a black hole might be getting slung out from the centre of the galaxy.
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