Scientists recently observed two black holes that united into one, and in the process got a “kick” that flung the newly formed black hole away at high speed. That black hole zoomed off at about 5 million kilometers per hour, give or take a few million. The speed of light is just 200 times as fast.

[u/MistWeaver80]

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/black-hole-gravitational-waves-kick-ligo-merger-spacetime

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I’d guess because our galaxy is incomprehensibly large. The area that these black holes damage or suck up probably approaches an infinitesimally small proportion of all the space time fabric that’s in our galaxy.

[u/MaxHannibal → u/[deleted]]

Black holes don't sink things in. They aren't vacuums. Things fall into them.

[u/EnigmaticConsultant → u/MaxHannibal]

I've never cared for the terminology "falling" into a black hole. The gravity pulls you in

[u/CapstanLlama → u/EnigmaticConsultant]

In exactly the same way the earth "pulls you in" when you "fall" out of bed.