Somebody Get This Supermassive Black Hole A Towel

"We've not seen anything like this before." - James Condon

"We concluded that our fleeing black hole was incapable of attracting that many stars on the way out to make it look like it does now." - James Condon

Nearly Naked Black Hole from NRAO Outreach on Vimeo.

"What happens to a galaxy when most of its stars have been stripped away, but it still has an active super-massive black hole at the middle?" - James Condon

"In a billion years or so, it probably will be invisible." - James Condon