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‘Restless’ black hole 3,000,000 times heavier than the sun spotted wandering through space – Yahoo News Australia

Harvard researchers believe the moving black hole may be the product of a merger between two huge black holes.

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The black holes were spotted by telescopes looking for signs of their ‘accretion discs’. (Stock image/Getty)
A supermassive black hole with a mass 3 million times that of our sun is wandering through space on its own at a speed of 110,000 miles an hour, scientists have revealed.
The “restless” black hole is 230 million light years from Earth and sits at the heart of a galaxy called J0437+2456.
The Harvard researchers believe the moving black hole may be the product of a merger between two huge black…

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