No, not because it was too young to drink! Scientists at the Max
Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics were looking at
some X-ray objects, and discovered something really weird: a
very bright X-ray source moving out of a galaxy at nearly 3,000
kilometers/second! This thing is a goner. If our Sun were moving
at even one quarter of that speed, it would get thrown out of
our galaxy. Now, here’s the kicker: this isn’t just any old
object getting tossed out of a galaxy, it is a huge black hole!
How huge? About 300,000,000 times the mass of our Sun. You read
that number right: 300,000,000. So there’s no way this is
anything other than a black hole. We’ve only ever found objects
this massive at the center of galaxies, where they presumably
help hold it together. So how is it that this one is getting
kicked out? Well, the only things that ever give off enough
energy to move something that massive that quickly are either
giant mergers or giant explosions. But this would have had to be
the most powerful superno