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there's an invisible giant monster on

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the loose it's barreling through

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Intergalactic space fast enough to

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travel from Earth to the Moon in 14

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minutes but don't worry luckily this

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Beast is very very far away

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this potential supermassive black hole

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weighing as much as 20 million Suns has

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left behind and never before seen 200

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000 light year-long trail of newborn

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Stars

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the streamer is twice the diameter of

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our Milky Way galaxy it's likely the

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result of a rare bizarre game of

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Galactic Billiards among three massive

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black holes

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astronomers suspect that first two

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galaxies merge perhaps 50 million years

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ago that brought together two

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supermassive black holes at their

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centers they Whirled around each other

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until another galaxy came along with its

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own supermassive black hole the three of

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them chaotically orbited around each

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other this unstable configuration

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couldn't last and eventually one of them

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was violently flung out of the host

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Galaxy

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rather than gobbling up Stars ahead of

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it this Speedy black hole is plowing

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into gas in front of it to trigger new

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star formation along a narrow corridor

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the next step is to do follow-up

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observations with NASA's James Webb

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Space Telescope and the Chandra x-ray

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Observatory

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also NASA's upcoming Nancy Grace Roman

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Space Telescope will have a wide angle

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view of the universe with Hubble's high

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resolution as a survey telescope the

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Roman observations might find more of

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these rare and improbable events

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elsewhere in the universe

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Hubble once again showing us that the