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A three-way collision of galaxies has given birth to a monstrous black hole
• http://www.businessinsider.com, Ali SundermierGases swirling in the center of a galaxy 1.8 billion light-years away were traveling faster than 370 miles per second. That's twice as fast as they would have expected.
The mind blowing speed of the gases hints at the existence of something extraordinary: a colossal black hole in the center of the galaxy.
A black hole 3.8 billion times the mass of our sun
Scientists believe that in the center of every large galaxy there lives a supermassive black hole. The center of our own galaxy is thought to house a black hole that is about 4 million times the mass of our sun.