James Webb Telescope Confirms First Runaway Supermassive Black Hole Speeding Through Space

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Astronomers using JWST have confirmed the existence of RBH-1, a supermassive black hole at least 10 million times the Sun's mass, ejected from its galaxy at 954 km/s likely due to a merger and gravitational recoil, providing empirical evidence for long-predicted black hole ejection mechanisms.
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