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Robert Lea

James Webb Space Telescope discovers oldest and most distant black hole ever seen

The galaxy GN-z11 as seen by Hubble (inset) an illustration of a feeding black hole.

A team of astronomers has used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to discover the most distant and oldest black hole ever seen as it feasts upon its host galaxy.

The discovery could be a massive step forward in understanding how supermassive black holes reached masses equivalent to millions of billions of times that of the sun in the very early epochs of the universe. 

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