This galaxy's black hole is BROKEN! 🤯

Hi Spacecats, I'm Dr Maggie Lieu and welcome to my channel, where you can find all things space, astronomy and physics! Astronomers have just made a baffling discovery in the well-known galaxy NGC 5084: a supermassive black hole that's tilted on its side! This unexpected observation challenges our understanding of galactic dynamics and black hole behavior. How is it possible that this peculiar phenomenon exists?

Links:
Borlaff et al 2024: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10...

Media credits:
NGC5084: Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona
NGC5084: X-ray: NASA/CXC, A. S. Borlaff, P. Marcum et al.; Optical full image: M. Pugh, B. Diaz; Image Processing: NASA/USRA/L. Proudfit
Zoom in M87 blackhole: ESO/L. Calçada, Digitized Sky Survey 2, ESA/Hubble, RadioAstron, De Gasperin et al., Kim et al., EHT Collaboration.
Chandra images: NASA GSFC
Alma: Alex Pérez
VLA: NRAO
Outflow: ESO/Kornmesser/Risinger
Starburst: ESO/Kornmesser
Figures: Borlaff et al 2024
Merger: Hopkins research group/Caltech

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