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Recent observations suggest that 'runaway' black holes are tumbling through the cosmos. Building on decades of theory, the discovery adds a remarkable new chapter to the story of the universe. Imagine ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has just confirmed a cosmic fugitive: the first known supermassive black hole racing through intergalactic space at roughly 2.2 million miles per hour, fast enough to ...

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