Black hole 'hurled out of galaxy'

[Notebook]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/science_and_environment/10108226.stm

A supermassive black hole may have been observed in the process of being hurled from its parent galaxy at high speed.
The finding comes from analysis of data collected by the US Chandra space X-ray observatory.

Wonder if its heading this way? That would solve all our problems.

N.

 

[jinglesassy]

Doesn't the galaxy its self orbit the super massive black hole?

 

[Notebook]

Looking at one galaxy in the Catalogue, Ms Heida noticed that the point of light was offset from the centre and yet was so bright that it could be associated with a supermassive black hole.

Its a "possible" outcome, from reading it they aren't sure whats going on.

If it is leaving its parent galaxy, it must have acheived secape velocity?

N.

 

[garyw]

If it is leaving its parent galaxy, it must have acheived secape velocity?
N.

If that galaxy was even it's parent to start with?

Or maybe it got too close to the supermassive black hole at the center and got flung out of the parent galaxy.

Fascinating stuff!

 

[Notebook]

Its a bit confusing this,

Simulations using supercomputers suggest that when this happens, the larger black hole that results is shot away at high speed.

are they saying that the galaxy is left without a black hole at its centre? Wouldn't that play havoc with its angular momentum?

N.

 

[Kyle]

Its a bit confusing this,
are they saying that the galaxy is left without a black hole at its centre? Wouldn't that play havoc with its angular momentum?

N.

What I heard was that another black hole took over and ejected the other one out.. not exactly sure.

 

[No Life]

I'm too young to died T.T

 

[T.Neo]

AFAIK, the stars in the galaxy carry on orbiting around their common center of mass.

That would solve all our problems.

Sure it would, in a few billion years.

Though I can't help wondering about anyone who is living in that galaxy right now, and what they think about the big x-ray source that hopefully isn't going to suck up their planet...

Strike that, this event happened billions of years ago, anyone living there now won't have a clue it ever occured. And they might be looking at a similar event occuring in a quaint little galaxy known by some inhabitants as the Milky Way...

c is fun.

 

[Ghostrider]

I'm too young to died T.T

You're never too young to die.

 

[No Life]

You're never too young to die.

true but just imagine what will happen if the black hole did come this way.

 

[Artlav]

true but just imagine what will happen if the black hole did come this way.

Your bones will be stardust by the time it gets there.

 

[Moach]

omg! in about a couple of million years we're screwed!

oh wait... the sun should blow up before that, no?


ah.. whatever... the way we're breaking our on lump 'o rock, were screwed either way...:thumbup:

 

[T.Neo]

Uh, no. Sol should make Earth unlivable in 500 million to a billion years, and will die in 4 or 5 billion years.

And stop being so pessimistic. The Universe is our oyster.

Well, it's more like some species of snail. Since progress is so damn slow...

 

[Izack]

Since progress is so damn slow...

Or we just live too fast...

 

[No Life]

omg! in about a couple of million years we're screwed!

oh wait... the sun should blow up before that, no?


ah.. whatever... the way we're breaking our on lump 'o rock, were screwed either way...:thumbup:

the sun wont be gone until another few billion years. :thumbup:

Your bones will be stardust by the time it gets there.

forgot about that lol-im dead :rofl: