New stars trail created by runaway black hole

Space scientists have discovered a huge black hole that is tearing through space, leaving behind a 200,000-light-year-long trail of newborn stars.

The supermassive black hole is believed to have been born from a celestial menage-a-trois that caused one of the black holes to be ejected at high speed, resulting in the rampage through the blackness and the plowing into gas clouds in its path.

The incredible forces generated by this event have led to the creation of a contrail of new stars, which has been captured on camera by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.

Scientists think that the gas is probably being blasted and warmed by the motion of the black hole, with gas in front of it getting shocked due to the supersonic, high-velocity impact of the black hole moving through the gas.

The black hole, which weighs about the same as 20 million of our Suns, is leaving behind a wake where the gas cools and is able to form stars.

Although this is the first runaway black hole ever spotted, it might not be the only one, and NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, expected to launch later this decade, could lead to the discovery of more of these star-forming runaways.

The discovery of this runaway black hole was accidental, and the star trail it has left behind is described as “quite astonishing, very, very bright, and very unusual.”