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Keith Cooper

'Fastest-feeding' black hole of the early universe found! But does it break the laws of physics?

A section of giant gaseous red has in space is magnified in a white box in the upper right, to show a red swirling cloud brightening to a white hot outer center and black center shooting out a jet of white purple spew.

The hungriest known black hole in the early universe has been found, thanks to teamwork between NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and Chandra X-ray Observatory.

The black hole's voracious appetite, which has allowed it to pile on more than seven million solar masses in just 12 million years, exceeds the theoretical maximum growth rate and goes some way to explaining how black holes could grow so massive so quickly in the early universe.

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