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Space
Science
Paul Sutter

How did this ancient black hole get so big?

A cloud of purple gas in space seen against hundreds of colorful swirls of light.

An enormous black hole in the early universe is much bigger than it should be for its age, based on what we know about black hole formation. So could there be another way to make black holes?

In 2023, astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the Chandra X-ray Observatory spotted UHZ1, the home of a gigantic black hole that existed when the universe was only 470 million years old.

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