Black hole to run at 8 million kilometres an hour? Something even scarier?

THIS monster has been booted out of its home. So what does it take to get a supermassive black hole to run at 8 million kilometres an hour? Something even scarier?

Black holes are the top-feeding predators of the universe.

Giant black holes dominate entire galaxies.

They live in their hearts. Their immense gravity keeps every star in its place.

So when Hubble spotted one on the run in a galaxy called 3C 186, something big — very big — must have happened.

You don’t simply push supermassive black holes about.

It’s liable to tear you apart.

But a research paper about to be published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics has a good idea why…

Source: Supermassive black hole quasar torn from galaxy 3C 186 | Perth Now