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“Scientists have discovered the oldest black hole yet,” reports the CBC, calling it “a cosmic beast formed a mere 470 million years after the Big Bang.” “The findings, published Monday, confirm what until now were theories that supermassive black holes existed at the dawn of the universe…” Given the universe is 13.7 billion years old, […]
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured images of extremely distant galaxies and supermassive black holes that existed when the universe was less than 1 billion years old NASA, ESA, CSA, S. Finklestein The universe’s earliest supermassive black holes appear to be much more massive than such black holes today, according to an analysis of […]
For decades the most distant objects we could see were quasars. We now know they are powerful active black holes. Active galactic nuclei so distant that they resemble star-like points of light. It tells us that supermassive black holes in the early Universe can be powerful monsters that drive the evolution of their galaxies. We […]
How do supermassive black holes, as seen in this illustration, get so big? Shutterstock/Sahara Prince 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. Many galaxies have a . . […]
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