JWST has spotted the earliest black hole ever seen in the universe

Written by on April 1, 2023

How do supermassive black holes, as seen in this illustration, get so big?

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The earliest known black hole in the universe has been spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), and it could tell us about the origin of supermassive black holes that formed much later.

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