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First Ever Wandering Supermassive Black Hole Revealed by an Explosion

2025-05-26 Science & Technology
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Top Comments (10)

@idealsAREisomorphic 2025-05-26

Suddenly the concept of space distances being unfathomably huge seems like a blessing.

414 17 replies
@AxionSmurf 2025-05-19

new fear unlocked

362 37 replies
@Hirome_Satou 2025-05-26

Imagine the horror of living in a solar system that suddenly gets captured by a black hole and you live long enough to see your star getting ripped apart.

156 37 replies
@matthornstein 2025-05-27

So the first ever rogue black hole (of stellar mass) was discovered a couple of weeks ago and now we’ve got the first rogue supermassive black hole? That escalated astronomically quickly

137 3 replies
@willo7734 2025-05-26

It still boggles my mind that this event we are seeing from 600,000,000 light years away actually happened basically around the time multicellular life was getting going.

96 2 replies
@justinpyle3415 2025-05-26

Imagine one flying around at like 170,000 km/s, just decimating entire solar systems without slowing down

70 11 replies
@MrRtotheB 2025-05-27

Invisible destroyer of worlds roaming around undetectable. That's comforting 😂

40 1 replies
@Times_Ticking 2025-05-26

I'm really happy that space is really, really big. Cheers! Thanks for the science and videos!

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@Time-Shepherd. 2025-05-21

Cheers Anton 🤠🖖

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@GeoffHalsey 2025-05-27

Imagine being a civilization around one of these stars and finding one of these monsters on it way to you, absolutely terrifying!

14 6 replies

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