Astronomers confirm runaway black hole racing through space
Astronomers have made two remarkable cosmic discoveries this week, confirming the first runaway supermassive black hole speeding through space and reporting evidence of a potential superkilonova, a never-before-seen type of stellar explosion that combines two of the universe's most powerful events.
The James Webb Space Telescope confirmed a supermassive black hole, at least 10 million times the mass of the Sun, traveling at 954 kilometers per second—or 2.2 million miles per hour—through a pair of galaxies known as the "Cosmic Owl," according to research published this week. The black hole, designated RBH-1, leaves a 200,000 light-year trail of newborn stars in its wake.
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers confirmed the first runaway supermassive black hole, 10 million times larger than the sun, moving at 2.2 million miles per hour through the Cosmic Owl galaxies. The black hole is leaving a trail of stars and triggering star formation in its wake. This discovery reveals that such events, though rare, could be more common than previously thought.
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