Hubble Detects a Rogue Supermassive Black Hole
Read the press release here - https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/feature/gravitational-wave-kicks-monster-black-hole-out-of-galactic-core
Download the Hubble images here - http://hubblesite.org/news_release/news/2017-12
Read the science paper here - http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hvi/uploads/science_paper/file_attachment/231/3c186.pdf
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