Astronomers working with the Hubble Space Telescope, discovered a supermassive black hole with a mass a million times the mass of our Sun, which now flies from its galaxy. This is the first confirmed case of "escaping" the black hole. To start the black hole of the galaxy must be a huge amount of energy.
How much energy?
According to estimates the team of researchers, to eject a black hole of the galaxy requires energy equivalent to the explosion of 100 million supernovae. According to their theoretical model, gravitational waves formed by the merger of two other black holes about 1-2 billion years ago, served as a source of energy to run the other supermassive object beyond the galaxy.
Astronomers noticed that the energy footprint of the black hole, also known as a quasar is turned very far from its expected location in the center of the home galaxy called 3C186. The object has moved over a distance of 35,000 light-years - is greater than the distance from the solar system to the center of the Milky Way. Supermassive black hole continues to move in the open space at a speed of 7.5 million kilometers per hour - a speed that allows you to fly from the Earth to the Moon in 3 minutes.
Source: spacetelescope.org
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