Hubble and Chandra spot a free-roaming black hole

In the silent immensity of the universe, certain phenomena are distinguished by their violence and mystery. In August 2024, an intense luminous explosion, coming from a galaxy located 600 million light years away from the Earth, captivated astronomers. The origin of this glow was not a supernova, as one might have thought, but the stellar feast of a supermassive black hole wandering, a cosmic colossus torn from the heart of its galaxy and thrown…

Hubble and Chandra spot a free-roaming black hole

High in the cosmic wilderness, far from the centers of galaxies where black holes usually do not reside, something extraordinary happened. A star wandered too... The post Hubble and Chandra spot a free-roaming black hole appeared first on DIY Photography.