New fear unlocked: runaway black holes
- Written by David Blair, Emeritus Professor, ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery, OzGrav, The University of Western Australia
A runaway black hole leaving a streak of new stars in its wake.James Webb Space Telescope / van Dokkum et al.Last year, astronomers were fascinated by a runaway asteroid passing through our Solar System from somewhere far beyond. It was moving at around 68 kilometres per second, just over double Earth’s speed around the Sun.
Imagine if it...
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