(NEXSTAR) — A supermassive black hole is speeding across the galaxy, and astronomers are baffled as to why.
The fast-moving black hole, which is about 3 million times heavier than the sun, is traveling at 110,000 mph about 230 million light-years from Earth, according to researchers at the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard and Smithsonian.
“We don’t expect the majority of supermassive black holes to be moving; they’re usually content to just sit around,” Dominic Pesce, an astronomer at the Center for Astrophysics who led the study, said in a statement . “They’re just so heavy that it’s tough to get them going. “
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Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory found the jet coming from an object roughly 12.7 billion light-years from Earth, which is pretty early in the universe's 13.77-billion-year-old history . If confirmed, this would be one of the farthest jet-shooting objects of its kind yet known.
The jet comes from an object known as a quasar , which are active galactic nuclei that feed off of supermassive black holes and can emit extraordinary amounts of energy. Astronomers hope that by studying the jet, called PSO J352.4034-15.3373 (PJ352-15 for short), they can learn how huge black holes came together so early in the universe's history.
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This artist rendering provided by NASA shows a star being swallowed by a black hole, and emitting an X-ray flare, shown in red, in the process. | Photo Credit: AP
Astronomers have spotted a supermassive black hole (SMBH) moving on its own. That is, the SMBH is moving with a velocity different from that of its surrounding galaxy.
This is surprising because supermassive black holes usually are not expected to move with respect to the galaxies in whose centres they reside, according to what is known about them so far. Supermassive black holes have masses millions of times the solar mass and inhabit the centres of galaxies. The one at the centre of the Milky Way is named Sagittarius A*.
Peering into a Galaxy's Core to Study Active Supermassive Black Hole | NASA
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Supermassive black hole moving at 110,000 mph throughout galaxy, Science News | wionews.com
The Harvard study surveyed ten distant galaxies and the supermassive black holes while specifically studying black holes "that contained water within their accretion disks".
According to Harvard and Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, a giant black hole is moving throughout the galaxy .
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Dominic Pesce, an astronomer at the Center for Astrophysics who led the study said: "We don't expect the majority of supermassive black holes to be moving; they're usually content to just sit around."
Black Hole in Cygnus X-1 Is So Massive That It Challenges Current Stellar Evolution Models
Measurements from known x-ray binaries have shown that black holes in these systems all have masses below 20 solar masses (M☉), with the largest being 15-17 M☉. However, gravitational wave detections of black hole merger events have found more massive black holes, reaching upwards of 50 M☉, revealing a discrepancy that challenges current theories on black hole formation from massive stars.
Using the new data and archival observations, Miller-Jones et al. refined the distance to the X-ray binary and found it to be farther away than previously estimated, thus raising the inferred mass of the system’s black hole to 21 M☉.
Scientists find a black hole moving at 110,000 mph throughout its galaxy - The Jerusalem Post
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