Astronomers may have discovered a supermassive black hole that has been ejected from its parent galaxy.

The black hole is estimated to be about 20 million times the mass of the Sun.

As the black hole barrels through intergalactic space, it is compressing the gas and dust, leaving behind a trail of newly formed stars about 200,000 light-years long.

The star trail is nearly half as bright as the parent galaxy it traces back to and is packed with hot blue stars.

This would be the first observational evidence showing that supermassive black holes can be ejected from their parent galaxies if confirmed.

Black holes themselves do not emit light, but they often leave visible traces of their existence, such as dense disks of superheated gas and dust.

The black hole was discovered by its unusual linear streak, seemingly linking it to a nearby galaxy.

The researchers initially investigated the possibility that the streak was an astrophysical jet but concluded that it was instead a trail of new stars.

The runaway black hole was likely ejected from its parent galaxy during a complex dance between three supermassive black holes involved in a pair of galaxy mergers.

The team plans to capture follow-up observations with the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory to confirm their hypothesis.

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