Hubble Detects a Rogue Supermassive Black Hole

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a quasar named 3C 186 that is offset from the center of its galaxy. Astronomers hypothesize that this supermassive black hole was jettisoned from the center of its galaxy by the recoil from gravitational waves produced by the merging of two supermassive black holes.

Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Katrina Jackson

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