Hubble Space Telescope captures black hole barreling across space

By Brady Knox

Published April 10, 2023 5:50pm ET

Hubble Space Telescope captures black hole barreling across space — This Hubble Space Telescope archival photo captures a curious linear feature that is so unusual it was first dismissed as an imaging artifact from Hubble's cameras. But follow-up spectroscopic observations reveal it is a 200,000-light-year-long chain of young blue stars. A supermassive black hole lies at the tip of the bridge at lower left. | (NASA)

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a “runaway” supermassive black hole that left behind a never-before-seen star trail across a great distance.

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