A Giant Black Hole's Wake in a Spiral Galaxy ⚡ экспресс
Original: "Galactic Contrail in NGC 3627 caused by Dwarf Galaxy Candidate or Massive Black Hole Flyby"
Astronomers have spotted a huge gas trail in galaxy NGC 3627, resembling the wake of a speedboat.
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Astronomers have found a giant trail in a galaxy, looking like a contrail from a plane. It stretches for 80,000 light-years! Such a wake could have been left by a black hole or a small galaxy that flew through a gas cloud.
🎯 It takes light 26,000 years to travel from one end of the wake to the other — that's longer than the distance from Earth to the center of our Galaxy.