The Webb Telescope Captures Runaway Black Hole

Pretty spectacular.
The Webb Telescope Captures Runaway Black Hole
Credit: NSA
By John Amato — December 21, 2025

The Webb telescope does it again.

A supermassive black hole which is 10 million times bigger than the mass of the sun has been captured by the aforementioned telescope.

Gizmodo reports that it's leaving a trail of gas that spawning new stars.

Astronomers have long theorized about runaway black holes, but none have been observed until now.

The black hole is one of the fastest-moving objects observed in the cosmos, traveling at a speed of 2.2 million miles per hour (1,000 kilometers per second). At that speed, it could travel from Earth to the Moon in 14 minutes, according to NASA.

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