Can a black hole move in any direction.?

Answer 1

I always thought black holes were stationary - as in they don't move. I think they can expand but I don't think they move. But since the universe is continuously getting bigger every moment, it may make a black hole appear to move.

Answer 2

A black hole shot from a spectacular cosmic explosion is racing across the Milky Way four times faster than the stars around it, astronomers announced. The discovery is among the best evidence that black holes are indeed the invisible offspring of supernova, the catastrophic and explosive deaths of massive stars.
The object is at least 6,000 light years away and is headed roughly in our direction but poses no immediate threat.
The matter-slurping monster was detected because it has a visible companion star from which it feeds. The visible star orbits the black hole once every 2.6 days as they race around the main plain of the galaxy in a looping, off-kilter orbit.
"This is the first black hole found to be moving fast through the plane of our galaxy," said Felix Mirabel, a researcher at the French Atomic Energy Commission who led the work.
How close will it come to Earth?
"Not closer than 1,000 light-years in the next 230 million years," Mirabel said.
The phenomenon is one of about one million wayward black holes zooming through our galaxy, said Mirabel.
The black holes bright associate was observed in 1995 and 2001 with the Hubble Space Telescope, operated by NASA and the European Space Agency. Other ground-based observations sealed the case. The two objects move at 250,000 mph (111 kilometers per second) in relation to the stars around them.

So does this answer the question?

Answer 3

Black holes have no power to move on their own. They are simply the remains of a massive star that has burned all of its nuclear fuel and undergone gravitational collapse. Like all objects in the universe, they will move according to Newton's laws of motion. Most black holes rotate (since the original star rotated), and many are part of a binary (or multiple) star system so they will orbit their paired star. In addition, all stars in spiral galaxies rotate around the galactic centre, while stars in elliptical galaxies move in orbital paths that have no preferred direction.

Answer 4

SRIGWilliams - can you provide a more accurate source for your post than just Space.com? I can't seem to find the information that you pasted from there on the site...I would like to read more about it.

I agree with stevewbcanada - black holes are bound by Newton's laws of motion and rotate around the galactic center. One can propose to say that a black hole can move in a certain direction through the plasma jets of black holes (which most astronomers believe can cause the collision of black holes and the formation of msuper-massive black holes). It is my personal opinion that black holes move in the direction that plasma jets push them - here is a pretty cool diagram that shows the expulsion of plasma and the directed motion of the black holes. http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?pic=060406_blackhole_dia_02.jpg&cap=X-ray+emissions+show+cold+regions+as+black+and+hot+areas+white.+Contours+show+the+radio+emission+from+the+plasma+jets.+Gas+in+front+of+the+black+holes+is+compressed+and+heated,+as+seen+by+the+hotspot+below+them.+In+the+inset,+each+dot+represents+an+X-ray+photon.+Contours+again+show+the+radio+emission+from+the+black+holes+and+the+jets+of+plasma+being+ejected+from+them.+Credit%3A+A&A,+NASA/Chandra

Answer 5

no one has considered a black hollow. that is no longer a image. Its a working laptop or computing gadget generated style of what somebody thinks a balck hollow would desire to look like. All we've considered is x-ray spikes that are believed to come back from the theoretical black hollow. Even it you observed it rotating in one direction, who's to declare you approached it from the front or top? could no longer you watch it from the different ingredient and notice it spin any opposite direction? there is not any physique of reference. yet because i think of rely falling right into a black how is falling out of time, i'm gonna say "counter-clockwise".

Answer 6

Here is an interesting page on rotating black holes ..

Answer 7

No, they can only move in the same way as the Knight on a chess board.

Answer 8

yes of course like everything eslse black holes are made up of matter and according to the quantum the little particles can move in a ny direction they please.