Massive black 'hurtling' through space discovered

June 06, 2012 15:17

After the venus showing, another piece of astronomical news.

Scientiests have found what they say is a huge black hole several million times the size of the Sun that is hurtling through space near a galaxy four billion
light years away. Supermassive black holes are thought to lurk at the
centre of most galaxies, including our own Milky Way. But the newly found black hole, the researchers said, may have been kicked out of its home galaxy.
They predict that there could be many such hurtling black holes out there and that the objects, moving at milluions of miles per hour, would be completely invisible to telescopes.

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