Webb Telescope finds a supermassive black hole fleeing a galaxy at 2.2 million mph, leaving a trail of disturbed gas.

The James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed the first evidence of a supermassive black hole traveling at 2.2 million mph through the Cosmic Owl galaxy pair, likely ejected by gravitational forces during a galactic merger. The black hole, 10 million times the Sun’s mass, leaves a 200,000-light-year trail of disturbed gas and a bow shock, detected via Webb’s infrared imaging. This rare "runaway" black hole, now 230,000 light-years from its origin, challenges existing models of black hole behavior and galaxy evolution, offering new insights into how massive objects move during galactic collisions.