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A supermassive black hole called RBH-1, weighing at least ten million Suns, appears to have been flung from its galaxy and is now racing through space at nearly 1,000 kilometres per second, leaving a 200,000

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A thin streak of gas and young stars trailing a distant galaxy is the wake of a supermassive black hole moving at close to 1,000 kilometres per second, according to a paper by Pieter van Dokkum of Yale University and colleagues, published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters and available as a preprint on arXiv. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, the team found the kinematic signature that had ...
A supermassive black hole called RBH-1, weighing at least ten million Suns, appears to have been flung from its galaxy and is now racing through space at nearly 1,000 kilometres per second, leaving a 200,000 | Huntaegis