Progenitor of the Recoiling Su... Note

Progenitor of the Recoiling Supermassive Black Hole RBH-1 Identified Using HST and JWST Imaging

Author(s): Tousif Islam, Tejaswi Venumadhav, and Digvijay Wadekar Using a combination of Hubble Space Telescope and James Webb Space Telescope imaging, a runaway supermassive black hole was recently identified with an inferred velocity of ${954}_{−126}^{+110}\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{km}\text{ }{\mathrm{s}}^{−1}$, likely ejected from a compact star-forming galaxy at… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 031404] Published Fri Jul 17, 2026