Strangely tilted black hole challenges formation theories

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A tilted black hole spinning around a misaligned axis has been discovered in our galaxy, challenging theories of black hole formation.

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The reference paper, A crooked spinning black hole, https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abn5290

The abstract states, "On page 874 of this issue, Poutanen et al. (1) present the case of x-ray binary system MAXI J1820+070, which counterintuitively has the spin axis of the black hole strongly misaligned to the orbital plane. This deeply challenges the current understanding of how black holes can be formed and indicates the presence of a powerful kick produced by the supernova that generated the black hole."

It would be interesting to see reported plainly in the space.com article, what the energy needed was for *a powerful kick*, like joules/s, erg/s.