JWST Looks Back In Time And Discovers Oldest Known Black Hole in the Universe

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JWST Looks Back In Time And Discovers Oldest Known Black Hole in the Universe
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A cosmic monster.

, the Webb telescope's uber-powerful sensors allowed it to spot the supermassive black hole, which is 10 million times more massive than the Sun and sat at the center of a galaxy some 570 million years after the universe began.that current estimates put the universe at about 13.7 billion years old, give or take about 200 million. So it's an old guy, even by universe standards.

"We do expect that this black hole didn't just form [recently], so there should be more that are younger and existed earlier on in the universe," said Larson, a PhD candidate at the University of Texas at Austin. "We're just starting to be able to study this time in cosmic history this way with the JWST, and I'm excited for us to find more of them.

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