SCIENCEJul 27 · 16:00 UTCNEW SCIENTISTLeah Crane

We’ve found the best example yet of an enormous wandering black hole

Astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole moving away from the center of its galaxy by observing light emitted from a star being torn apart. The finding provides an example of a wandering black hole detected through this method.

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