04.29.09
Rogue black holes roaming the Milky Way
Hundreds Of Rogue Black Holes May Roam The Milky Way, Swallowing Anything That Gets Too Close
ScienceDaily (Apr. 29, 2009) — It sounds like the plot of a sci-fi movie: rogue black holes roaming our galaxy, threatening to swallow anything that gets too close. In fact, new calculations by Ryan O’Leary and Avi Loeb (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) suggest that hundreds of massive black holes, left over from the galaxy-building days of the early universe, may wander the Milky Way.