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Black hole on the run

UNIVERSE Can black holes leave their host galaxies? Apparently they can, because astronomers have just observed one leaving home at speed.

More than 50 years ago, astrophysicists predicted the existence of black holes that leave their galaxies, but they have never found one. So this new

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