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Guang-Xing Li

1 articles · 1 co-authors · latest: 2025-09-25

A Giant Black Hole's Wake in a Spiral Galaxy

A very long and narrow trail of gas and dust has been discovered in the galaxy NGC 3627. It stretches for 26,000 light-years but is only 650 light-years wide. This wake was left by a massive black hole or the core of a dwarf galaxy that plunged through the galactic disk. The discovery offers a new m
arXiv:2509.20832 · 2025-09-25