Bryan White, MS Bio, MPH 馃К @crvscience.com 路 Dec 18

This is kind of insane to think about. Supermassive black hole 10 million x the size of the Sun, hurtling through space at 2 million mph, pushing a galaxy-sized shock wave of matter in front, and dragging a 200k light-year tail behind it. A new kind of galactic-scale comet 馃И #JWST #Astronomy #Space

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Doug Sloane 路 Dec 18

How could it push matter ? Would it not be an attractive force ? What would such a "shock wave" consist of ?

Mr. Dr. Prof. Patrick 路 Dec 18

Is it hanging out in the space between galaxies or is it in a galaxy somewhere destroying it as we speak?

Roxanne Darling 馃尡 路 Dec 18

Feeling small yet grateful to know this!

SI 路 Dec 18

Yes insane - and just for a laugh I plugged your post into gemini AI to see if ot could break it down a bit lol