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Astronomers spot a runaway supermassive black hole

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Fast-moving black holes leave behind hole-less galaxies.

A black hole 600 million times the mass of the Sun has been kicked out of the centre of a distant galaxy, according to research from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, Germany.

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  1. Komossa, S., Zhou, H. & Lu, H. Astrophys. J. 678, L81-L84 (2008).

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Hand, E. Astronomers spot a runaway supermassive black hole. Nature (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2008.792

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