An unusually large black hole was spotted exiting its home galaxy, kicked out after a huge cosmic merger took place.

The event was announced today and was seen for the very first time. Astronomers have came up with a theory that the resulting energy release could propel the new black hole from its parent galaxy out into space, though it was inevident since no one has found such an event. Stefanie Komossa of the Max Planck Institute for extraterrestrial Physics, who was part of the team that made the new discovery and stated, “But we haven’t seen the actual merger event.”

Komossa and her team currently had detected the consequences of the merger, thus resulting to a black hole in the process of leaving its home galaxy. Komossa stated further:

“The consequence was that the merged black hole, the final product, the new black hole was expelled from the galaxy.”

Full details and the team’s results will be appearing in the May 10 issue of the journal Astrophysical Journal Letters.