Black hole shoved aside, along with ‘central’ dogma

MIAMI — Supermassive black holes are shiftier beasts than astronomers suspected. A new analysis reveals that the giant black hole at the core of the highly studied galaxy M87 somehow got displaced about 22 light-years from the galaxy’s center.

“This result signals a necessary shift in the supermassive black hole paradigm,” said Daniel Batcheldor of the Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne.