JWST Confirms: First Runaway Supermassive Black Hole Tearing Through Space

Runaway Black Hole Escapes Its Galaxy—and It's Leaving Baby Stars in Its Wake

The Webb telescope confirmed one of the fastest moving celestial objects ever detected.

A Runaway Supermassive Black Hole Is Racing Through Space at Nearly 1,000 km/s and Leaving a Trail of Newborn Stars Behind

Astronomers have confirmed the first supermassive black hole ever seen escaping its galaxy.

JWST Confirms: First Runaway Supermassive Black Hole Tearing Through Space

Every now and again, a stellar object is caught zooming across space like a white rabbit, extremely late for a very important date. Now, for the first time, astronomers have confirmed a supermassive black hole at least 10 million times the mass of the Sun, somehow yeeted from its host galaxy at a jaw-dropping 954 kilometers (593 miles) per second – that's 0.32 percent of the speed of light. It's not the fastest runaway stellar object ever observ…

James Webb Space Telescope confirms 1st 'runaway' supermassive black hole rocketing through 'Cosmic Owl' galaxies at 2.2 million mph: 'It boggles the mind!'

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to confirm the first runaway supermassive black hole, one of the fastest bodies ever seen, pushing a galaxy-worth of material ahead of it and forming stars in its wake.

James Webb Confirms First Runaway Supermassive Black Hole Rocking Through Space

The James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed the first runaway supermassive black hole, moving at 2.2 million mph through the Cosmic Owl galaxies. Pushing a galaxy-sized shockwave and leaving a long trail of star-forming gas, this discovery confirms long-standing theories about black hole ejections and opens the door to finding more cosmic speedsters.