@Polaris 17 March 2021 more from that month

A Moving Supremassive Black Hole discovered 🕳 Black holes are usually content to sit around. They’re just so heavy that it’s tough to get them going. Scientists initially surveyed ten distant galaxies and the supermassive black holes at their cores. They specifically studied black holes that contained water within their accretion disks — the spiral structures that spin inward towards the black hole. When water orbits around, the black hole emits a laser-like beam of radio light known as a maser. When studied with a combined network of radio antennas using a very long baseline interferometry (𝐕𝐋𝐁𝐈), masers can help measure a black hole’s velocity very precisely. The technique helped them determine that nine of the ten supermassive black holes were at rest. But the remaining one was found to be in motion. The moving black hole is located at the center of a galaxy named J0437+2456 that lies approximately 230 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 light-years away from Earth. It has three million times of mass that of our sun.it is confirmed that the black hole is moving at a speed of about 110,000 miles per hour inside the galaxy J0437+2456. Posted by: Cosmos Explorer #Astronomy