A wandering black hole caught feeding on the run

While the conclusions of the observation are interesting, what really stood out to me was the observations themselves. That black hole is 20 million light years away, in another galaxy! And we have multiple high enough resolution observations to conclude how the gas orbits the black hole and gets dragged along behind it. That's nuts.

LegacySurvey deep link[1].

Zooming out from there and one gets an appreciation for how (in)significant we really are.

[1] https://www.legacysurvey.org/viewer?ra=195.8160&dec=-17.4268...

Paper in Arxiv https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10719

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