Rogue Black Hole Seems to Lack a Host Galaxy
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A supermassive black hole 5 billion light-years from Earth appears to be homeless, with no galaxy to nestle in, Hubble Space Telescope scientists reported this week in the journal Nature. Most monster black holes lurk at the heart of massive galaxies, slurping up matter from the galactic center. The European astronomers reported that this rogue black hole might be the result of a rare collision between a seemingly normal spiral galaxy and an exotic object harboring a very massive black hole.
