Supermassive Black Hole Likely Lurking in Milky Way’s Nearest Neighbor
https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/supermassive-black-hole-likely-lurking-in-milky-way-galaxys-nearest-neighbor
Supermassive Black Hole Likely Lurking in Milky Way’s Nearest Neighbor
https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/supermassive-black-hole-likely-lurking-in-milky-way-galaxys-nearest-neighbor
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Okay if there really is a SMBH in the large mag cloud, that is sick!
Isn’t there a SMBH in every nearly galaxy?
Unless my recollection is wrong, it’s the normal and expected path for a galaxy to take. I would guess the galaxies that are missing Dark Matter may be different, but this seems pretty standard.
The key of the article is:
> Astronomers have found what appears to be the closest supermassive black hole outside of our own Milky Way galaxy. This giant black hole is in the Large Magellanic Cloud, the closest satellite galaxy to our own.
“Closest” seems to be the critical part here.
“Lurking” wtf? It’s the center of that system isn’t it? Organizing and holding it together more like.
Is this really news? Pretty much assumed they’re lurking in every galaxy.