There’s a “runaway” black hole is tearing through the universe — and NASA is calling it an “invisible monster on the loose.”
“There’s an invisible monster on the loose, barreling through intergalactic space so fast that if it were in our solar system, it could travel from Earth to the moon in 14 minutes,” NASA wrote in a release.
The supermassive black hole created a never-before-seen trail of stars, leaving behind a 200,000-light-year-long “contrail” of newborn stars twice the diameter of the Milky Way.
It’s pushing into gas in front of it to create the new star formation in a narrow corridor rather than eating up the stars ahead of it.
“The black hole is streaking too fast to take time for a snack,” NASA quipped.
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