A black hole races through space, leaving a trail of stars in its wake. View the viral video.

 April 08, 2023

                       The colossal beast is tearing through the void, smashing through gas clouds in its path. This occurrence was most likely caused by a strange game of cosmic pool. Because of the tremendous pressures at work, this gas is being shaped into a path of brand new stars, which NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has photographed.

Instead of devouring stars in its path like a cosmic Pac-Man, the fast black hole smashes into the gas in front of it, causing star formation within a rather narrow corridor. There's no time for a snack because the black hole is moving too fast. It was captured by chance by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, and it is unlike anything anyone has ever seen before.

"We believe we see a wake behind the black hole, where the gas cools and can form stars." "So we're looking at a star formation trailing the black hole," said Yale University's Pieter van Dokkum in New Haven, Connecticut. "What we're witnessing is the fallout." "We're seeing the wake behind the black hole, just like the wake behind a ship."

The black hole is located at the far end of a long column that extends from the parent galaxy. Ionised oxygen forms a brilliant knot at the tip of the column. Scientists believe the gas is being shocked and heated by either the black hole's velocity as it smashes into it or radiation from an accretion disc surrounding the black hole.

This cosmic explosion was most likely caused by several supermassive black hole collisions. Astronomers believe the first two galaxies collided around 50 million years ago. Two black holes with supermassive cores collided as a result. They spun incessantly around one another, like a binary black hole.

Eventually, a second galaxy with its own supermassive black hole appeared. "Two's company, three's a crowd," as the old saying goes. The interaction of the three black holes caused the arrangement to become unstable and chaotic. After stealing momentum from the other two, a third black hole was ejected from the host galaxy. It's possible that the original binary is still intact, or that the new black hole has engulfed one of the original pairs.

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